From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 2 19:36:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fb01.eng00.mindspring.net (fb01.eng00.mindspring.net [207.69.200.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94EC614EB0 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2iniikt.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.74.157]) by fb01.eng00.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20651; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:36:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05490; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:36:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:36:04 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, louie@TransSys.COM, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, groudier@club-internet.fr Subject: vmnet (was: Linux ioctl not implemented error) Message-ID: <19991202223604.B5379@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <19991202160515.C536@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <199912030216.MAA84653@mail.theinternet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912030216.MAA84653@mail.theinternet.com.au>; from akm@mail.theinternet.com.au on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:16:00PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > The bochs port implements a pseudo-ne2000 using BPF under FreeBSD, is > this approach a possibility? The freebsd ether stuff from bochs has > Peter Grehan (grehan@iprg.nokia.com) on the copyright so he'd be the > one to contact about the availability of (parts of) his code to use in > a port I suppose. I don't know. At any case we are need provide the same API as linux vmnet provide, so we are need to implement it in the kernel module. But bochs use user level implementation. > It does have some limitations (can't send packets to the host/os) but > I don't know how complete the code is either. At this time I found the next message (it was posted more than 3 years ago at the freebsd-hackers mailing list): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=661424+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1996/freebsd-hackers/19961020.freebsd-hackers It's a very long URL but I hope that it's possible to retrieve it. At least you can search via its subject: Networking in PCEMU (1/2) I don't study this code, but it looking not so bad. > > Kevin Lawton (the bochs author) is working on his own vmware type system > as well, they're still in an experimental mode though. Yes. I looking to this project, named as freemware. Their URL: http://www.freemware.org/ But this code very experimental. And to develop such kind of software are need to have steal nerves. I fill that, at the time when I was porting vmware. I have too much hours of very interested work - load driver, launch vmware and then looking into the DDB double fault screen. Reload box, and then again. -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message