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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:11:33 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ANNOUNCE: VMware 1.1 for Linux on the FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <38410DE5.B14BEEA8@scc.nl>
References:  <199911280321.TAA97385@mass.cdrom.com>, <199911280357.WAA00650@mindspring.com>

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"Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote:
> >
> > BTW, having looked more closely at the test you use for detecting whether
> > the right linux module is loaded I'm not so sure it's entirely good: it
> > does presume that the kernel sources are installed and that the running
> > linux module was built from /sys.  However, I can't come up with a better
> > simple solution, so I'm not going to complain. 8)
> >
> It's not the test to right linux emulator, but this is a test to right source
> code. Testing to right linux emulator is pretty simple: build small dummy
> kld, and try to load them, if it loaded succesfull this mean that we are have
> right version of the linux emulator and vice versa.

The proper solution would be to formalize installable ioctl handlers in
the Linuxulator and bump the version when it's implemented.

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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