From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Aug 18 9:15:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7C814ED8; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA66764; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:15:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:15:41 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Chris Dillon Cc: Mark Huizer , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990818171541.A80710@pavilion.net> References: <19990818145850.E17189@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Dillon on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:16:29AM -0500 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:16:29AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > 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). We will _definitely_ buy VMWare if we can run it on a FreeBSD host system - I believe that I've told them so in the past. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message