From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 15:30:15 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 9BF5C16A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:30:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C6243D48 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:30:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t13so255546wxc for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=DwXoGLo9MtnsW4b4GhTJgATFDWYzoONGbZ/Q/+IWFCWON5MIOAbJcNkygISoI+9Jx5novZeiazolcE02Ufb0MJoGmQG7SRmVbpC8TByKsKIC2iI0Fi8JtMGaWkrNsPVKyLLzzrtrj0jH2bwAgPAs/okr5wvgpj8qCkup7JHXFGI= Received: by 10.70.75.15 with SMTP id x15mr733239wxa; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.53.4 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff0510130830l68298bd1p3f3d20c76110df95@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:30:13 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel To: stanley jobson In-Reply-To: <20051012170258.669d4f45.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_5649_14173406.1129217413803" References: <434BCDF6.3090303@samsco.org> <20051012170258.669d4f45.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:30:15 -0000 ------=_Part_5649_14173406.1129217413803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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.*. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. ------=_Part_5649_14173406.1129217413803--