Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:55:45 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available Message-ID: <17237.32113.798540.388315@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0510130830l68298bd1p3f3d20c76110df95@mail.gmail.com> References: <434BCDF6.3090303@samsco.org> <20051012170258.669d4f45.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <790a9fff0510130830l68298bd1p3f3d20c76110df95@mail.gmail.com>
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Scot Hetzel writes: > On 10/12/05, stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> wrote: > > hi, > > > > > - The QEMU and VMWare packages are known to expose problems in the > > > IDE CDROM driver during OS install. > > > > will this be corrected for 6-stable? > > > > what about vmware 4 and vmware 5 having in the ports? anybody working on > > that? what are the probs? > > > I'm currently using vmware 5.5 on WinXP to host a FreeBSD guest. But > in order to get FreeBSD as the host OS, we'll need to back port some > linux ioctl to RELENG_4, RELENG_5, RELENG_6 from -CURRENT. See my > MFC request from May 20th: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050421.html > > Also, some one will need to re-write orlando's VMware 4 patch to > vmmon to work with Vmware 5.* and the VMware 3 vmnet patch to work > with VMware 4, and 5.*. Is the vmware stuff ever likely to work w/ acpi enabled? I'd been running Vmware 3 successfully, but moved to an IBM T42p laptop and it needs acpi enabled to run. Thanks, g.
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