From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 15 8:46: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A6B37B405; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:46:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAFGk0n67268; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:46:00 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:45:58 -0500 To: John Baldwin , Glenn Gombert From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: FreeBSD on vmware Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Ian Dowse Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message