From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 21:16:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1608F16A412 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:16:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59BEB43CAE for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:16:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 17134 invoked by uid 399); 17 Dec 2006 21:16:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Dec 2006 21:16:39 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <4585B3AC.30105@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:16:28 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061215) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ensel Sharon References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: legal use of vmware on FreeBSD _not possible_ (informational) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:16:33 -0000 Ensel Sharon wrote: > For reasons difficult to discern, FreeBSD has not put any priority at all > on support for vmware, and for continuing the working, usable support for > vmware3 running in linux binary compat mode. It's not difficult to discern at all. This is a volunteer project. No one has volunteered to maintain this. Q.E.D. > Your only other option is to break the law Please don't give legal advice. You're obviously not a lawyer, and you obviously don't understand the law. > Again, the decision to completely dismiss and abandon vmware support No such decision has been made. See above. > and > the needs of FreeBSD users everywhere that increasingly need to emulate > linux, solaris, etc., is a baffling one. There are other emulators in the ports right now that work pretty well. I'm far from an expert, but qemu looks promising, and there actually is development work happening to get xen working for FreeBSD. If someone steps up and does the work to get newer vmware working, it will likely be welcomed with open arms. Hope this helps, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection