Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:44:42 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware 3.1 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <p05111729b95ab3ee5ac9@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020717044906.GA54783@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020717044906.GA54783@peitho.fxp.org>
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At 12:49 AM -0400 7/17/02, Bob Bomar wrote: >I was trying to install VMware 3.1 on my FBSD box, when I got >to the configureing part, it gave me this error: > >[bob@warrior] ~>sudo vmware-config.pl >Password: >Setup is unable to find the "insmod" program on your machine. >Please make sure it is installed. Do you want to specify the >location of this program by hand? >[yes] > >What is insmod? There is no port for vmware3 on freebsd. If you are asking questions like "what is insmod?", it is not likely that you will have an easy time getting this linux program (with it's fingers into linux system internals) running on your freebsd system. I would like to see vmware3 on freebsd, but I do not know enough to figure out the programming/porting issues involved. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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