From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 14:10:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214CA16A422 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:10:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (gndrsh.dnsmgr.net [205.238.40.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8FB43D48 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:10:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA80649; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200601261410.GAA80649@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: orlando@break.net Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:10:29 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 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: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:10:50 -0000 I have seen many reports of problems, and a few suggested work arounds, which I tried, but no one saying they have vmware3 running correctly on either 4.11 or 5.4 systems. Of cource you never hear about what works, only about what is broken :-(. I have managed to get it running here by going back to the old linux_base-7.1. I am in the process of doing further regression testing to find out exactly when it broke, it was some time between linux_base-7.1 and linux_base-8.8. I am in contract with the freebsd-emulation mailling list and have started to submit nit fixes to other things like RTC (I think I see a far more serious bug there, I just need to test and confirm it, then fix it if it turns out to be real.) I have at least a couple nit fix that can probably go in right away: 1) vmware3 requires perl both to build, and to run, yet the port doesnt state that. This is ok on 4.x as perl is built in, but on 5.x and later this well not work. Unclear to me on exactly how to handle this... 2) The pkg-desc still refers to the old name vmware.sh and not the new 001.vmware.sh. 3) The installation location was arbitrarly moved from /usr/local to /usr/X11R6 by the mega-linux 8.8 update. I would like to see it moved back to /usr/local. 4) The docs state that it wont work on SMP systems, well it should actually say it wont work on a system with an APIC in it. I can boot on my UP system with an enabled APIC and the code locks up. Need to probably make a note about that and add a test to check for apic and bail out like the NCPU>1 does. Regards, -- Rod Grimes freebsd@freebsd.org