Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 06:30:00 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update port VMware 1.1 for Linux, Networking Support Message-ID: <19991208223000.518FC1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:52:06 EST." <19991207225206.A6304@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
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"Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote:
> Hi
>
> Port of the VMware was updated, short list of changes:
>
> Networking support.
> Now had support for host only networking for one VMware session
> Support for Pierre Beyssac linproc filesystem
> Removed limitation to run VMware only on 'remote' X server
> Thnx to Darren Wiebe
> VMware-wizard support
> Thnx to Dave Costello
>
> The most important, it's a networking support. Now supported host-only
> networking, for one VMware virtual session. The first limitation about
> host-only networking, just mean that to setup connection between virtual
> machine and a rest of the world, you are need to bringup gateway on our host.
I had to make a patch to procfs to make this work:Index: procfs_vnops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_vnops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -u -r1.75 procfs_vnops.c
--- procfs_vnops.c 1999/11/21 19:03:19 1.75
+++ procfs_vnops.c 1999/12/08 22:28:22
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
/* name type validp */
{ DT_DIR, N("."), Pproc, NULL },
{ DT_DIR, N(".."), Proot, NULL },
+ { DT_REG, N("exe"), Pfile, procfs_validfile },
{ DT_REG, N("mem"), Pmem, NULL },
{ DT_REG, N("regs"), Pregs, procfs_validregs },
{ DT_REG, N("fpregs"), Pfpregs, procfs_validfpregs },
This emulates /proc/pid/exe (linux's name for the executable file). We used to
have "file", but that was backed out after 5 years as a "security hole".
BTW; VMware is spooky... :-)
Cheers,
-Peter
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