From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Nov 10 22:20:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEB037B41A for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.vns.oc.ca.ua ([24.38.95.69]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011111062050.PHLT12684.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@server.vns.oc.ca.ua>; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:20:50 -0800 Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by server.vns.oc.ca.ua (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAB6Kl754620; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vns) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:20:47 -0800 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Mark Santcroos Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: VMware2 port fixes [was: Re: Linuxulator MFC and VMware] Message-ID: <20011110222046.A54582@server.vns.oc.ca.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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