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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Richard Stanaford <richard@nebula-bsd.dyndns.org>
Cc: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD?
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Of course we run Vmware 2 under emulation. So vmware 3 MUST be run under
emulation.
As has been said before, it probably runs but the setup
program looks for too many linux specifics and doesn't generate a good
config file.

It just takes someone to figure out what it needs.

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Richard Stanaford wrote:

> 
> You might get it to run under Linux emulation... I've never tried it
> though.
> 
> The VMWare documentation for even version 3.1 indicates FreeBSD support
> as a client OS only.
> 
> I assume you knew that, but I wanted to save you the trouble of a
> possible "wild-goose-chase" id you didn't.
> 
> Good luck!
> -Richard
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:30:54PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > sent this to -questions a week ago, got no response, so I'm asking
> > again here: is it possible to run VMware 3 on -STABLE? If so, how?
> > I noticed there is no port like there is for VMware 2, so that's
> > why I'm asking.
> 
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