From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 15:27:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD1B16A419 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:27:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518D313C46E for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:27:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l6MFRgpT005430; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:27:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:26:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20070722061625.GD4336@soaustin.net> <46A336F6.6040103@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46A336F6.6040103@jp.FreeBSD.org> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707221126.57742.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Makoto Matsushita , Mark Linimon Subject: Re: are the vmware3* ports still needed? 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, 22 Jul 2007 15:27:48 -0000 On Sunday 22 July 2007, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > (put my "emulations/vmware-{tools,guestd}3 MAINTAINER" hat on) > > > These ports depends on misc/compat3x, which has long-known security > > problems. Is there any reason to keep the vmware3* ports around now? > > Maybe no reason to keep them (except for users who still use VMware > Workstation 3, already unsupported product by VMware.) However, there's > less reason to remove them and that's why these ports still there. > > Since misc/compat3x security vulnerability is hard to fix, it's the time > to remove emulations/vmware-{tools,guestd}3. Unfortunately, VMware Workstation 3.x is the most recent Workstation that works (or sort of works, or used to work) on FreeBSD. Definitely not supported by VMware any longer and in fact impossible to get licenses for, but I know that there are people still using it. There have been various threads in the past few months about what needs to happen to get recent versions of VMware Server or Workstation working under FreeBSD. Most notably, rsync.net is sponsoring a code bounty to get VMware Workstation 5.5 (or possibly 6.0 now) working under FreeBSD (this went out on -announce). The bounty page is below. Although it hasn't been updated, I believe the bounty _has_ been claimed (and I actually sent a Workstation 6 license key that I'm not using to rsync.net to aid the process) and is now being worked on. I don't have any more details than that, however. http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html Anyway, I think that the emulators/vmware3 port should remain at least until a usable replacement appears. If there _is_ a compelling argument to axe it, a heads-up should probably go to a wider audience than -emulation, possibly including one or more of -ports, -questions and -stable. JN