Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:16:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Mark Huizer <mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908180910260.55122-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19990818145850.E17189@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Huizer wrote: > 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. WooHoo! Well, I can't celebrate quite yet, but I'll definately be buying a copy of VMWare if anyone gets this to work (WAY above my head, so no help from me, sorry). More than likely, many people other than myself would also buy a copy of VMWare for Linux just to run under FreeBSD, so maybe you can convince VMWare, Inc. to give you or whoever else decides to tackle this some monetary compensation? It would also help to bring us a step closer to a native FreeBSD version of VMWare, since some (most?) of the work would already be done for them (the porting of vmmon and vmnet). -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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