From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 22:44:54 2002 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 031FE37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6C743E64 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6H5ihdW044468; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:44:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020717044906.GA54783@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020717044906.GA54783@peitho.fxp.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:44:42 -0400 To: Bob Bomar , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: VMware 3.1 and FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 12:49 AM -0400 7/17/02, Bob Bomar wrote: >I was trying to install VMware 3.1 on my FBSD box, when I got >to the configureing part, it gave me this error: > >[bob@warrior] ~>sudo vmware-config.pl >Password: >Setup is unable to find the "insmod" program on your machine. >Please make sure it is installed. Do you want to specify the >location of this program by hand? >[yes] > >What is insmod? There is no port for vmware3 on freebsd. If you are asking questions like "what is insmod?", it is not likely that you will have an easy time getting this linux program (with it's fingers into linux system internals) running on your freebsd system. I would like to see vmware3 on freebsd, but I do not know enough to figure out the programming/porting issues involved. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message