From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 19:49:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-187.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D213937B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAS3ulF23058; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011280356.eAS3ulF23058@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Sergey Babkin Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:48:30 EST." <3A231CFE.3CF457F8@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:56:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be comparable to the work involved in the VMware port (ie. reasonable but not excessive). > I've noticed in InfoWorld a mention of a new Windows emulation > product for Linux, Wind4Lin. So I went on their web-site > > http://www.netraverse.com/ > > The problem is that their stuff seems to be strongly tied to the > Linux kernel, and they provide a whole lot of sub-versions for > various Linux distributions. > > So I've sent them e-mail asking if they plan to add FreeBSD support. > The answer I got is that they are not sure if there is a big enough > market on FreeBSD, up to now they got less than 100 requests for > a port. So if you think that their product may be something > interesting for you, please send e-mail to > and show up as a potential buyer! > > -SB > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message