From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 13:34:17 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 25BE837B405 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:34:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC1643E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003020421341400200i5robe>; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:34:14 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h14LYD79004417; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h14LYC3g004414; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:34:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Kenneth Culver Cc: dick hoogendijk , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: vmware 3.2 References: <20030204144810.L2042-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Feb 2003 16:34:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030204144810.L2042-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Message-ID: <44of5rvigb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Kenneth Culver writes: > 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 I'd looked over the Ethernet-virtualization drivers, and I thought they were pretty ugly (and accordingly scary), but given your previous success with tweaking the Linuxulator, I'm willing to accept your assessment. > 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