Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:56:21 -0500 (EST) From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VMware 4 now has networking support Message-ID: <20060219155622.038CBBC074@spike.porcupine.org>
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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
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