From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 22:23:48 2006 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 9EE0C16A494; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:23:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: from Daffy.timing.com (w.timing.com [206.168.13.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD14E43F0C; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:19:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: from gromit.timing.com (gromit.timing.com [206.168.13.209]) by Daffy.timing.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kBHMJSYY058408; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:19:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: from gromit.timing.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gromit.timing.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBHMJNB6099262; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:19:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jhein@gromit.timing.com) Received: (from jhein@localhost) by gromit.timing.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kBHMJNnn099259; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:19:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jhein) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17797.49770.978675.595537@gromit.timing.com> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:19:22 -0700 From: John E Hein To: Ensel Sharon In-Reply-To: References: <4585B3AC.30105@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on Daffy.timing.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: legal use of vmware on FreeBSD _not possible_ (informational) 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: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:23:48 -0000 Ensel Sharon wrote at 16:35 -0500 on Dec 17, 2006: > It's difficult to discern why it has been allowed to degrade. I think Doug explained that fairly clearly. Back a few years ago there were a couple people who did work to get vmware to run on FreeBSD. For whatever reason, those same people are not doing so today. The most likely answer is that they have different priorities and needs now, and work on different things. There also may be PRs that exist that may address today's problems with VMware on FreeBSD. That said, there are people actively working linux emulation in general. It would probably be more useful if you explained to this list what issues you had when trying to run vmware (e.g., any error output, kernel messages, ktrace results, OS version, etc.).