From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Mar 7 22:15:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E2737B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2296F43F75 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:15:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsi@panix.com) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A129845E; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:15:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rsi@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.6/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id h286FM216495; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:15:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200303080615.h286FM216495@panix2.panix.com> To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Jade E. Deane" , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware Workstation 3.2 in FreeBSD References: <1047079440.557.14.camel@martini> From: Rajappa Iyer Date: 07 Mar 2003 22:15:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garance A Drosihn writes: > At 5:24 PM -0600 3/7/03, Jade E. Deane wrote: > >Has anyone successfully run VMware Workstation 3.2 by way of > >Linux compatibility? > > > >Would appreciate any advice. > > vmware2 runs on freebsd, taking advantage of linux compatibility. > vmware3 does not run. no one has done the work for it. Many > people would like to see the work done, and would love to buy > vmware3 if it did run on freebsd. But at the moment it does not. I notice that NetBSD does have a package for vmware 3.2. How difficult would it be to port it over? rsi -- a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message