From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 15:56:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEF016A423 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:56:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wietse@porcupine.org) Received: from spike.porcupine.org (spike.porcupine.org [168.100.189.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DC643D5E for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:56:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wietse@porcupine.org) Received: by spike.porcupine.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 038CBBC074; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:56:21 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:56:21 -0500 (EST) X-Time-Zone: USA EST, 6 hours behind central European time X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20060219155622.038CBBC074@spike.porcupine.org> From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Subject: VMware 4 now has networking support X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:56:23 -0000 Frustrated by the absence of recent VMware support I have taken a day or so to tinker with Orlando Bassoto's port from a year ago at http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html. I got the vmnet network interface to compile and run, but the rest still needs lots of work. Here are some first impressions after I got it to work on my FreeBSD 5.3 laptop computer (an IBM T42P). Normally I use this machine with VMware 3. - An idle virtual machine running Win/XP or FreeBSD 6 burns 10-20% of my 2GHz CPU. This may have to do with the next problem. - It complains that /dev/rtc is unavailable (no such file or directory) even when I union mount defvs over /compat/linux/dev. - When running as non-root, many things break with "NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(638):663" followed by "Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server ...". If someone wants to pick up this effort, great, because I am both out of time and at the limits of my expertise. You can find my tarball with patches and README for VMware 4.5.2 at ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/misc/vmware4-freebsd-20060218.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/misc/vmware4-freebsd-20060218.tar.gz.sig Wietse