Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:59:24 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmnet.ko missing - but it's there! - vmware and crashes Message-ID: <p0611042dbd24c03d5927@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040721115940.56342A-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040721115940.56342A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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At 12:01 PM -0400 7/21/04, Robert Watson wrote: > >I've been wondering if we shouldn't bring the VMware modules into >the base source tree for some time -- the license is probably an >issue, but VMware is a valuable tool for development, and I'm >amazed at how frequently and accurately I shoot my feet due to >stale versions of the module ... It would be great to have more reliable support for VMware, as it can be a very helpful tool. I am also hopeful that the guys at http://www.serenityvirtual.com/ will eventually get to their virtual-machine product, which is supposed to run natively under FreeBSD. Right now they're still in the beta-version process, and they have not started to beta-test the product which will run with FreeBSD as the host OS. (perhaps they're waiting for 5.3-stable... :-). Right now my solution is to keep running VMware 2 on my freebsd 4.10-system. Neither of those are changing much, so that works well enough for my purposes. But if I had an option which would reliably work on a 5.x-system, that would be very helpful. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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