From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 23:59:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1110516A422 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:59:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 143DB43D48 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:59:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 13360 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2006 23:59:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 28 Feb 2006 23:59:35 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:59:33 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <44008135.1030901@samsco.org> Message-ID: <20060228175317.T19575@odysseus.silby.com> References: <79e2026f0602241120u77b4d043jca464a658bb0c0f7@mail.gmail.com> <44008135.1030901@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Ashok Shrestha , orlando@break.net, matusita@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, vsilyaev@mindspring.com Subject: Re: VMWARE GSX Port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:59:38 -0000 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Scott Long wrote: > Ashok Shrestha wrote: >> VMWARE GSX was released recently for free. >> [http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/server_beta.html] >> >> Is anyone working on a port for this? >> >> > > I've started on it, but I haven't made much progress yet. > > Scott Anyone who's interested in working on it should make sure to start with the VMWare 3 port (which works at present), and Orlando's beta 4.5 port: http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html Also of major use would be the merged linux vmware modules available at: http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ (or more specifically) http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update98.tar.gz This has support for VMWare 1 through 5.5, so if you take our version 3/4 support and this code, you should be able to see what's left to implement. So, support SHOULD be possible, it's just a matter of someone putting in the time to get it all working. (I do not have any such time, unfortunately.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack