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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:45:58 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Glenn Gombert <glenngombert@onebox.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on vmware
Message-ID:  <p05101003b819a1500e68@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011115073518.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.011115073518.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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At 7:35 AM -0800 11/15/01, John Baldwin wrote:
>On 15-Nov-01 Glenn Gombert wrote:
>>
>>   Thanks for the tip Ian ...this works great! I have applied this patch
>>  to my desktop system ...and the FreeBSD Current kernel with this patch
>>  applied boots right up now...anyone else running Current under FreeBSD
>>  would fine it helpful to do as well....
>
>Perhaps we need an 'options VMWARE' that this could be triggered off of.

Sounds like a good idea.  But call it something like 'VMWARE_GUEST', so
it is less likely to be used by someone who wants to *run* vmware on
freebsd.  (and if we need some other kernel options for running vmware
on freebsd, those could be called 'VMWARE_HOST', or something).

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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