From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 16 14:12:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 BEFD216A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:12:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E0F743D60 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:12:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2004 14:12:01 -0000 Received: from dsl-082-083-163-152.arcor-ip.net (EHLO [192.168.1.5]) (82.83.163.152) by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 16 Dec 2004 15:12:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <41C197A1.8080403@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:11:45 +0100 From: Phil Schulz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041121 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronj_clark@yahoo.com References: <20041216135543.9715.qmail@web52504.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041216135543.9715.qmail@web52504.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing VMWare 4.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:12:03 -0000 Ronnie Clark wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed VMWare 4.5 > Workstation on FreeBSD 5.3? If so, what are pitfalls > or things to watch out for? > i don't think vmware 4 works on freebsd since, iirc, the linux version loads a kernel module and thus can't be run under the linux compatibility layer. however, there are older versions of vmware in the ports tree under emulators/ which work on freebsd (at least did work on 5.2.1) kind regards, phil.