From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Mar 16 1:10:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A7114D78 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA52043; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:12:32 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:12:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Nathan Ahlstrom Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and linux loadable modules In-Reply-To: <19990315194803.B16646@winternet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > > I was looking over the vmware product (http://www.vmware.com/) and it seems > to require the linux equivalent of KLDs. Is it possible to load and use > these on FreeBSD? I'm afraid not. The Linux kernel is very different from FreeBSD and we will almost certainly never be able to share nontrivial kernel modules. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message