From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 3 7:25:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4181524D for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 07:25:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991202213517.58671@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:35:17 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Darren Wiebe , David von Stetten Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <99120220480100.00526@goliath> <3846E427.D78C0504@heartland.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3846E427.D78C0504@heartland.ab.ca>; from Darren Wiebe on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:27:03PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 December 1999 at 14:27:03 -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote: > David von Stetten wrote: >> >> Hello everybody.... >> >> When I read a couple of days ago that the linux version of vmware now runs >> on FreeBSD I got all excited, but then I noticed that this was only the >> case for -current. I am using FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE, so I was wondering if >> there would be any way to get vmware to run on this version? Maybe by >> pgrading the linux emulator or something.... >> >> Any comments on the subject would be highly appreciated! :-) > > Wishing exactly what I am... You could probably update to current. I > tried upgrading but I cannot get it to build, I guess that means that I > should not be running it yet... I should tell you to go to -current > because the handbooks says NEVER to do it just for new toys... :-) It > would take a bit of work to get it to work I think. It could probably > be done in -stable, I don't know about 3.3 release though... Before you get too worried about the situation, consider that 4.0-RELEASE is scheduled for 15 January 2000. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message