From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Nov 28 3:26:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A8414CE7 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 03:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA42443 for emulation@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:11:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for emulation@FreeBSD.org (emulation@FreeBSD.org) To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:11:33 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <38410DE5.B14BEEA8@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199911280321.TAA97385@mass.cdrom.com>, <199911280357.WAA00650@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: VMware 1.1 for Linux on the FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message