From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 2 6:32: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B939037B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747F243E72 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:32:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g82DVxHU068331; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:31:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g82DVxI8068330; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:31:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:31:59 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Bruce M Simpson Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020902133159.GH89997@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20020827123054.GF68243@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020828110956.A23979@nebula-bsd.dyndns.org> <20020830082012.GA18902@spc.org> <20020902103747.GA762@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020902132351.GA2409@spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ni93GHxFvA+th69W" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020902132351.GA2409@spc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ni93GHxFvA+th69W Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:20:12AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > Having said that though, I have had 3.0 running as well as 2.0, under > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Can you elaborate a bit more please? Probably your definition of 'runni= ng' > > is less strict than mine. >=20 > As in, just dumped the executables onto the box, and had it run - I haven= 't > attempted to run any guest OSes yet.=20 You have it running?! I'm still struggling to get a vmmon module, without which vmware spits out this indefinitely: VMware Workstation Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. Press "Enter" to continue... I've tried grabbing the sources for the 2.x vmware modules but a lot of patches fail... > The USB functionality looks like it's > going to need either a userland ELF redirection (via the LD_PRELOAD=20 > mechanism) to 'pretend' to field Linux usdevfs requests. Either that or w= e're > going to need to port (hack, spit) usbdevfs. The userland solution is > probably quicker to punt out and code (map open/ioctl and other syscalls, > match by path, onto /dev/ugen*) than porting usbdevfs.=20 Way above my head :) > Joe Karthausen is talking about making this a project (porting 3.1). Less > talk more rock? :-) Trying to, but not succeeding... --Stijn --=20 I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a k= nob called `brightness', but it doesn't work." -- Gallagher --ni93GHxFvA+th69W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9c2hOY3r/tLQmfWcRAoS1AJ9naNw5P393H04t1t2bsxwoj87Y/wCgpnoJ /92DXnupMST66HTw5CMn3kI= =KvQV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ni93GHxFvA+th69W-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message