Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:20:47 -0800 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: VMware2 port fixes [was: Re: Linuxulator MFC and VMware] Message-ID: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua>
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on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:00:01AM +0100, Mark Santcroos wrote: >> How often did you contact the maintainer and how much time did >> you give him? > >As in multiple times and several weeks. > Oops, sorry guys. I've lost my vns@delta.odessa.ua E-mail acount about month or so ago and I just figure out that recently. Unfortunatly at the momemnt I can't solve that problem. Could you please resend related patches to the vsilyaev@mindspring.com . >>Anyway, it doesnt change anything structural, it is just to fix the build >>process. > >> If we tried hard enough and didn't got a response, we're free to >> fix the port without his explicit approval. I just verified that >> the port builds on -current. With the patches applied, we need to >> verify a build on -stable as well. I'll do the honours of noone >> objects... > >Make it something like: > >if (FreeBSD_version > KSE_DATE) > PATCHFILES+=vmware2_kse.patch > >Thanks for the effort btw. > >Mark > >ps. does any of you run a -current guest in vmware2 on a -current host? I'm aware about problems to run -current as a guest. My guess is that when NEWSMP has been introduced, vmware uses slow patch to emulate CPU, unfortunatly it could be confirmed/solved only by folks from VMWare. -- Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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