Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:45:28 +0100 From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Vladimir N Silyaev <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions on Vmware2 (or vmware3?) on current Message-ID: <20020215094528.E50440@laptop.6bone.nl> In-Reply-To: <p05101401b892222fbcca@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:47:02PM -0500 References: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> <20011112072336.A60470@laptop.6bone.nl> <p05101401b892222fbcca@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:47:02PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > The vmware2 port seems to depend on linux_base-6.1, would > there be any problem using linux_base-7.1 instead? (I guess > that may also depend on the rtc port). I have only run it with 6.1. The rtc driver doesn't seem to work. However, afaik you only need that for win98 guest. > The vmware product has moved on to version 3. Is there any > progress on having a vmware3 port for freebsd? Is there > anyone who could get such a thing running (at least for > freebsd-current) if given small amounts of money? Fighting > with this port is giving me an ulcer, and sorting out the > issues is probably beyond my area of expertise. If I speak for myself the time is more an issue than the money. I also only have a certain beta of the product, don't know how much changed in the meanwhile. Having the released product itself would be a nice start. > Would it be possible to run multiple instances of vmware2 > or vmware3 if I am using freebsd-current as the host OS? > I'd really like to switch over to freebsd-current for my > daily work, and I think vmware is the last missing piece. I will certainly put effort into getting this going again. A while back when I started on this I got the module converted to version 3. But I had problems running the binaries. If I get some new boost of motivation I hope to get something done with it. > Oh, another question. I'm using XFree86-4 (4.2, in fact) on > my freebsd-current system. Would that cause any problems? > Right now all the problems I'm having seem to be at the network > configuration, but I haven't gotten far enough along to know if > it'll work with this version of X. > > When installing vmware2, it asks if I wanted to use netgraph > bridging. I said 'yes', as I'm sure that's what I did under > stable. It then asked which interface did I want to bind that > to? My ethernet card is fxp0. Should I answer that as 'fxp0', > or as '/dev/fxp0'? I didn't use bridging, host only however works fine for me. Summarizing: vmware2 works fine under -current at the moment except for one problem that it can only be run once due to some thing we are looking into with the tap device. Vladimir, what are your plans regarding vmware3, any time in the near future or can I happily start hacking again at it? Cheers, Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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