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Hello!

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:03:05AM -0500, Robert Watson 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.

It is already possible to run multiple instances of VMWare 3
(which can be found in ports).

/fjoe