From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 22:00:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3AD16A406 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (kozubik.com [69.43.165.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630F013C45E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l32M0mNQ061774; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id l32M0lU3061771; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:00:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20070402095502.ejpfl6sk4sokwo4c@webmail.leidinger.net> Message-ID: <20070402145854.F35599@kozubik.com> References: <20070401121154.O35599@kozubik.com> <20070402095502.ejpfl6sk4sokwo4c@webmail.leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x 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: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:00:49 -0000 Alexander, On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting John Kozubik (from Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:34:34 > -0700 (PDT)): > > > Is there anyone out there that has the time, expertise and background to > > implement Vmware workstation 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x, in as good (or better) a > > fashion as 3.x on FreeBSD 4.x was circa 2001-2002 ? > > Do you know if vmware 5.x runs on Linux 2.4.x? If it does not run > there, it will not run on FreeBSD 6.x. It may run on -current, we are > working on improving the linuxulator there. There are no plans to > merge the 2.6.x emulation (far from complete or bugfree ATM) to 6.x. Vmware 5.5.3 will run with Linux kernel 2.4.x. [1] In fact, it appears to run on 2.2 as well. [1] http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/intro_hostreq_ws.html