From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 1 20:01:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C64616A405 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:01:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (kozubik.com [69.43.165.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6A513C44B for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:01:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l31JYYBf031712; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id l31JYYwC031709; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:34:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070401121154.O35599@kozubik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: orlando@break.net Subject: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:01:55 -0000 I have been running FreeBSD as my primary workstation OS for 8 years now. Vmware workstation is an absolute requirement for my work, and thus I have been limping along on an old copy of Vmware Workstation 3.x for Linux run in binary compat mode on FreeBSD 4.x. [1] For a variety of reasons, this is no longer sustainable. Not only do I need to move to FreeBSD 6.x, but I need to upgrade to Vmware 5.x. Running another host OS is not an option - I suspect you will sympathize. Is there anyone out there that has the time, expertise and background to implement Vmware workstation 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x, in as good (or better) a fashion as 3.x on FreeBSD 4.x was circa 2001-2002 ? Further, would you be interested in maintaining such an implementation into the future so that Vmware on FreeBSD is no longer a "pet project", but rather a regularly tested and updated piece of the ports tree ? [2][3] I am willing to immediately pay an initial and ongoing bounty to get work started, and am willing to organize some kind of ongoing bounty effort to get this back on the right track and kept there. John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com [1] Yes, I do realize that http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html describes a set of hacks to get Vmware 4.x running on recent FreeBSD releases. [2] That is, creating and maintaining a vmware5 port (and later, vmware6) and polishing it such that the vmware3 port is no longer required. [3] Eventually supporting the proposed vmware 3d accel, etc.