From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 11:54:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8374B37B40A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2AD44242 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h14Jn3C1002046; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h14Jn2Qc002043; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:02 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: dick hoogendijk , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: vmware 3.2 In-Reply-To: <44adhcjdhx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20030204144810.L2042-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There was a port of vmware2 to freebsd before. It doesn't require having access to the closed-source part of vmware 3, in fact, the port should for the most part be pretty straightforward, I was planning on trying it but I ran out of time and won't have time again until June at the earliest. Ken On 4 Feb 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > dick hoogendijk writes: > > > Does anyone know if somebody working on a port for vmware3.2? > > The difference between version 2 and 3 is very noticable, so I would be > > very happy w/ a running vmware3.2 under freebsd. I'm not able to do > > proting myself and thus can only hope someone will. > > I wouldn't hold my breath. The application is closed source, and the > Linux version requires kernel modifications to make the application > work. The obvious candidate for this project would be VMWare > themselves; if you ask them, you can tell them that *I* would buy the > product if they supported it on FreeBSD... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message