From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 8:42:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41707153C9 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27205; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:44:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:44:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Milan Kopacka Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Milan Kopacka wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > I started looking at the kernel modules and porting them, however, I > > > must confess that I don't fully understand exactly what the linux > > > kernel module does, which makes it somewhat harder to implement the > > > same functionality on FreeBSD :-) > > > > a quick scan of the vmware site didn't reveal where the kernel > > mods are. are they available freely? can i have a url please? > > Source code is included in the distribution. They have modules precompiled > only for certain versions of Linux kernel. You may have to compile them > yourself when you are running some other version. so one must purchase the program to get the kernel mods, is there an evaluation that can be downloaded? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message