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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> [031117 11:40] wrote:
> > > I'm saying we can support most of the interesting things I know of that
> > > need this state already using devfs clone support.  I'm wondering if you
> > > have in mind anything further that can't be accomplished with clone
> > > support.  I.e., something that requires session state for something other
> > > than /dev entries?
> > 
> > Not really.  I didn't realize that the problem had been taken care of.
> 
> It hasn't been taken care of until it's possible to run multiple
> instances of VMWare on FreeBSD, which works just fin on Linux. 

Well, I don't know if the driver has been updated, but the infrastructure
to let the driver do what it needs to do is present.  If we still have a
VMware2 port (what I have a license for), maybe I'll take a look at it
this evening.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories