From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Mar 16 13:30:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CB3151FC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:29:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA53589; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:31:39 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:31:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and linux loadable modules In-Reply-To: <199903162044.MAA00623@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > > > > > I was looking over the vmware product (http://www.vmware.com/) and it seems > > > to require the linux equivalent of KLDs. Is it possible to load and use > > > these on FreeBSD? > > > > No, the internals of the kernel are different. The easiest way to try vmware > > is to install Linux or WinNT and use FreeBSD as a guest OS. > > > > I don't expect emulation of loadable kernel module support. > > At this point in time, VMware is unable to run FreeBSD. Yet again, we > push the emulation authors' envelopes. I thought *BSD was supported as a client OS or has some feature of current broken this? I haven't had a chance to play with vmware yet. I'm seriously tempted to install Linux just to try it out. > > However, there is some interest inside the company for a FreeBSD > version, so we may see a skunkware release at some stage. Now that would be damn useful to me as long as there was a way to hook up kernel gdb (maybe through an emulated serial port). On the other hand, most of the stuff I am working on needs real hardware.. Does Bochs boot FreeBSD yet? Last time I tried, it fell over during clock initialisation (to get that far, I had to disable APM). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message