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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD
In-Reply-To: <199908192040.WAA27646@peedub.muc.de> from Gary Jennejohn at "Aug 19, 1999 10:40:23 pm"
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It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> Mark Huizer writes:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare
> >requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be
> >portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly
> >that seems to be using Linux specific stuff, brrr..) But anyway: it
> >looks feasable.
> >
> >Is anyone already working on this, or are some people interested in
> >helping with this?
> >
> >As far as I can see, the linux emulation is good enough to run the
> >vmware program, "all" you need to do is implement /dev/vmmon and
> >/dev/vmnet, given the fact that the code is written really unportable,
> >so there is some rewriting to be done. Then with the KLD's
> >vmmon,vmnet and linux you should be able to run vmware.
> >
> 
> Soren mentioned that he might look into it a few weeks ago, but that's the
> last thing I remember seeing.

Yup, I have the files here, and have given it a quick look, doesn't look
to difficult to do, but I havn't had time yet to get into the matter..

It will probably be awhile before I do have the time though, but if
nobody else does it I'll get to it sooner or later...

-Søren


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