From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 23:59:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org 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 1413316A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:59:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (gndrsh.dnsmgr.net [205.238.40.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8C443D46 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:59:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA76789 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:59:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200601242359.PAA76789@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:59:00 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 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: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:59:08 -0000 I like others have run into the problems of getting vmware working on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4. I havent seen a posted solution anyplace so I went to work on good old regresion testing to find out when it broke so I could find what broke it. I pretty much have it down to the update of ports/emulators/linux_base, if you use the old linux_base-7.1_7 code you can get a working vmware built. In the process of doing all this I found some other things that should be cleaned up. Like the fact that vmware3 requires perl to build, it is not listed as a build dependency. The pkg-message still refers to vmware.sh insteead of 001.vmware.sh Not sure where I saw that it is broken for SMP, the truth is if you have APIC compiled your in trouble too. And can someone explain why this port now installs into /usr/X11R6???? it is not part of X11, or have things changed so that now all X apps install into the X tree? Note that I am not on the mailing list, so please CC me -- Rod Grimes