From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 22:55:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F17E16A420 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (w094.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8BA43D58 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF1421AD; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from satchel.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "satchel.alerce.com", Issuer "Alerce Certificate Authority" (not verified)) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0231E2170; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from satchel.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by satchel.alerce.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9IMtmTf001118 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@satchel.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by satchel.alerce.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j9IMtjKh001114; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17237.32113.798540.388315@satchel.alerce.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:55:45 -0700 To: Scot Hetzel In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0510130830l68298bd1p3f3d20c76110df95@mail.gmail.com> References: <434BCDF6.3090303@samsco.org> <20051012170258.669d4f45.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <790a9fff0510130830l68298bd1p3f3d20c76110df95@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 15) "Security Through Obscurity" XEmacs Lucid X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: stanley jobson , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:55:51 -0000 Scot Hetzel writes: > On 10/12/05, stanley jobson 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.