From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Aug 18 5:59:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl3.philips.com (gw-nl3.philips.com [192.68.44.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A90C14E09; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 05:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl3.philips.com with ESMTP id OAA24208; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:58:52 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from mark@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com) Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl3.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma024204; Wed, 18 Aug 99 14:58:52 +0200 Received: from xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com (xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com [130.139.64.114]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id OAA27547; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:58:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7CEAC505D; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:58:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:58:50 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990818145850.E17189@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com> Reply-To: mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there, I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly that seems to be using Linux specific stuff, brrr..) But anyway: it looks feasable. Is anyone already working on this, or are some people interested in helping with this? As far as I can see, the linux emulation is good enough to run the vmware program, "all" you need to do is implement /dev/vmmon and /dev/vmnet, given the fact that the code is written really unportable, so there is some rewriting to be done. Then with the KLD's vmmon,vmnet and linux you should be able to run vmware. Mark -- Mark Huizer - Mark.Huizer@nl.origin-it.com - xaa@xaa.iae.nl Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message