Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:40:23 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199908192040.WAA27646@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:58:50 %2B0200." <19990818145850.E17189@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com>
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Mark Huizer writes: >Hi there, > >I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare >requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be >portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly >that seems to be using Linux specific stuff, brrr..) But anyway: it >looks feasable. > >Is anyone already working on this, or are some people interested in >helping with this? > >As far as I can see, the linux emulation is good enough to run the >vmware program, "all" you need to do is implement /dev/vmmon and >/dev/vmnet, given the fact that the code is written really unportable, >so there is some rewriting to be done. Then with the KLD's >vmmon,vmnet and linux you should be able to run vmware. > Soren mentioned that he might look into it a few weeks ago, but that's the last thing I remember seeing. I'm interested in helping with this, though. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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