From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Nov 13 1:45:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A406E37B416 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (penguin.ripe.net [193.0.1.232]) by birch.ripe.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fAD9jMq01307; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:45:22 +0100 Received: (nullmailer pid 2865 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 13 Nov 2001 06:11:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 07:11:55 +0100 From: Mark Santcroos To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware2 port fixes [was: Re: Linuxulator MFC and VMware] Message-ID: <20011113071155.A940@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> <20011112072336.A60470@laptop.6bone.nl> <20011112082551.D58549@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011112082551.D58549@server.vns.oc.ca.ua>; from vsilyaev@mindspring.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:25:51AM -0800 X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:25:51AM -0800, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > > As vmware3 is out, vmware2 is probably not in development anymore by them > > so bugging them about it doesnt make sense anymore (probably). > The problem that VMware runs slow -current, has nothing to do with > FreeBSD host, I believe you should see the same behaviour while run > FreeBSD-current guest, under Windows/Linux host. Thats what I said :-) > Yeah, I wish that VMWare willing to do any changes, in my expereince > they are not, the long lasting issues (mutliple vmware sessions > and full screen text mode) required just little changes in the vmware > code, but it was never done. I don't know that. Never had any contact with them about concrete features. I did talk a little with one of their engineers on a conference once. I asked them about access to raw devices(through io) when the driver is not supported by vmware itself. > > Are you working or are you planning to work on the vmware3 port. I have > > made a patch for the vmware3 linux module that does the same thing as your > > vmware2 changes and the module now compiles and loads cleanly. > I haven't looked since early beta dates, from what I've learning, they > now want to open vmmon device several times per guest (that means > it could be cleany implemented only under -current). > Due to lack of time, I haven't chance to look into the 3.0 release. Do you forsee that in the future or do you think it is worth that someone else looks into it? Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message