From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 14:54:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5748916A403 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:54:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1242E13C44B for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:54:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334108BCEAB; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:54:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uqpsY2+BnvNX; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:54:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D788BCE2C; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:54:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l33EsMjb071249; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:54:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:54:22 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20070403145422.GA71212@freebsd.org> References: <20070401121154.O35599@kozubik.com> <20070402095502.ejpfl6sk4sokwo4c@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070402145854.F35599@kozubik.com> <20070403120543.awgarosussowkwsc@webmail.leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070403120543.awgarosussowkwsc@webmail.leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x 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: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:54:31 -0000 > >Vmware 5.5.3 will run with Linux kernel 2.4.x. [1] In fact, it appears to > >run on 2.2 as well. > > A first try would be to backport some bugfixes (e.g. the mmap() fixes) > from -current (I can give a hint or two if someone is interested to do > this). After that determining what is needed by vmware would give a > hint where to proceed. a lot of work went into -current linuxulator and I think that trying to identify single change is not very productive. 7.0R is coming so I think we should just stick with 7.x linuxulator.... just my 2 cents as I am not the one who do the actual MFCes ;) roman