Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:37:03 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware Message-ID: <790a9fff0511211037g20e19374g8b69d38e9f105cb7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051121040836.I47999@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <20051121040836.I47999@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On 11/21/05, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> wrote: > > Vmware 3.3 is in ports, but vmware has advanced to 4.5, 5.0, and > now 5.5 is in beta testing. All of these run FreeBSD as a guest (I'm > running 6.0 as a guest on Windows XP). > > But VMware 4.5, 5.0, and 5.5 don't run on FreeBSD, which I think > is unfortunate as it prevents FreeBSD from being used as a test platform > for other operating systems. While native FreeBSD support would be nice, > running with linux emulation would be okay, but not even this works. > > Wouldn't this be an important priority for making FreeBSD a more > widely used test platform? > > Thanks you for your consideration. > Orlando Bassotto made VMware 4.5.x run on FreeBSD 5.x. But it required a patch to the FreeBSD kernel to support gettid syscall in the linux emulator. This syscall is now in FreeBSD 6.x and -CURRENT.=20 But still requires patching of the FreeBSD 5.x kernel. While he does supply a patch for vmmon. He doesn't have a patch available for vmnet. And the patch for vmnet from the vmware3 port will not apply to the vmware4+ sources of vmnet. If someone can create the missing patch, and then create the vmware4 port (restricted to FreeBSD 6+, and/or FreeBSD 5.x with patch). After this is done someone will have to port the vmnet and vmmon patches to vmware5 and 5.5. http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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