From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Mar 16 2:34:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58931518F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (i149.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.112.110]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01931 from for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:33:24 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA54027 for emulation@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:19:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by scones.sup.scc.nl with netnews for emulation@FreeBSD.ORG (emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) To: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:19:40 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <36EE303C.C7937EE3@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <19990315194803.B16646@winternet.com> Subject: Re: vmware and linux loadable modules Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? No, the internals of the kernel are different. The easiest way to try vmware is to install Linux or WinNT and use FreeBSD as a guest OS. I don't expect emulation of loadable kernel module support. marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message