From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Aug 19 23:28: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from iservern.teligent.se (www.teligent.se [194.17.198.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28FD14F66; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakob@teligent.se) Received: from fwse.teligent.se (gateway.teligent.se [192.168.3.254] (may be forged)) by iservern.teligent.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA27330; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:27:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jakob@teligent.se) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:25:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Jakob Alvermark Reply-To: alvermark@teligent.se To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199908192040.WAA27646@teligent.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd like help too.=20 /Jakob Alvermark On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Mark Huizer writes: > >Hi there, > > > >I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMW= are > >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. > > >=20 > Soren mentioned that he might look into it a few weeks ago, but that's th= e > last thing I remember seeing. >=20 > I'm interested in helping with this, though. >=20 > --- > Gary Jennejohn > Home - garyj@muc.de > Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 ------------------------------------------------------- Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nyn=E4shamn, Sweden =20 Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36=20 Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message