Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:39 +0100 From: "ganael.laplanche" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware Message-ID: <20051122095802.M55538@martymac.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0511211037g20e19374g8b69d38e9f105cb7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051121040836.I47999@andrsn.stanford.edu> <790a9fff0511211037g20e19374g8b69d38e9f105cb7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, ... And it doesn't seem Vmware for FreeBSD is going to be be released soon ! Here is an answer from the technical support : >Hi, > >Do you intend to release a FreeBSD version of VMware ? > >Thank you, > >Ganael. -- At this point there is no plan to release a FreeBSD version of Workstation. This is in part due to Freebsd's quick changes from Release and Stable Thank you, XXX Technical Support Specialist VMware, Inc. ********************** Too bad :( Ganaël LAPLANCHE ganael.laplanche@martymac.com http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:37:03 -0600 Subject: Re: VMware > On 11/21/05, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > Vmware 3.3 is in ports, but vmware has advanced to 4.5, 5.0, and > > now 5.5 is in beta testing. All of these run FreeBSD as a guest (I'm > > running 6.0 as a guest on Windows XP). > > > > But VMware 4.5, 5.0, and 5.5 don't run on FreeBSD, which I think > > is unfortunate as it prevents FreeBSD from being used as a test platform > > for other operating systems. While native FreeBSD support would be nice, > > running with linux emulation would be okay, but not even this works. > > > > Wouldn't this be an important priority for making FreeBSD a more > > widely used test platform? > > > > Thanks you for your consideration. > > > > Orlando Bassotto made VMware 4.5.x run on FreeBSD 5.x. But it > required a patch to the FreeBSD kernel to support gettid syscall in > the linux emulator. This syscall is now in FreeBSD 6.x and -CURRENT. > But still requires patching of the FreeBSD 5.x kernel. > > While he does supply a patch for vmmon. He doesn't have a patch > available for vmnet. And the patch for vmnet from the vmware3 port > will not apply to the vmware4+ sources of vmnet. If someone can > create the missing patch, and then create the vmware4 port (restricted > to FreeBSD 6+, and/or FreeBSD 5.x with patch). After this is done > someone will have to port the vmnet and vmmon patches to vmware5 and > 5.5. > > http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html > > Scot > > -- > DISCLAIMER: > No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Original Message -------
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