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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
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Subject: Re: vmware3 not supported--why?
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:40:32AM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> Does anybody know why us users of FreeBSD-4.8 are left out of support of
> vmware version-3? What can be the reason that _only_ fbsd5 and up is
> supported? The latter *IS* a developers branch, so everybody w/
> production machines can only use vmware-2.x, which is much slower than
> the later version 3.x

Because the required kernel modules have only been ported to FreeBSD
5.x.  Feel free to port the code to 4.x yourself, offer money to the
original porter to do it himself, etc.  Remember this is a volunteer
project.

Kris

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