Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:31:59 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020902133159.GH89997@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020902132351.GA2409@spc.org> References: <20020827123054.GF68243@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020828110956.A23979@nebula-bsd.dyndns.org> <20020830082012.GA18902@spc.org> <20020902103747.GA762@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020902132351.GA2409@spc.org>
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--ni93GHxFvA+th69W Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:20:12AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > Having said that though, I have had 3.0 running as well as 2.0, under > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Can you elaborate a bit more please? Probably your definition of 'runni= ng' > > is less strict than mine. >=20 > As in, just dumped the executables onto the box, and had it run - I haven= 't > attempted to run any guest OSes yet.=20 You have it running?! I'm still struggling to get a vmmon module, without which vmware spits out this indefinitely: VMware Workstation Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. Press "Enter" to continue... I've tried grabbing the sources for the 2.x vmware modules but a lot of patches fail... > The USB functionality looks like it's > going to need either a userland ELF redirection (via the LD_PRELOAD=20 > mechanism) to 'pretend' to field Linux usdevfs requests. Either that or w= e're > going to need to port (hack, spit) usbdevfs. The userland solution is > probably quicker to punt out and code (map open/ioctl and other syscalls, > match by path, onto /dev/ugen*) than porting usbdevfs.=20 Way above my head :) > Joe Karthausen is talking about making this a project (porting 3.1). Less > talk more rock? :-) Trying to, but not succeeding... --Stijn --=20 I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a k= nob called `brightness', but it doesn't work." -- Gallagher --ni93GHxFvA+th69W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9c2hOY3r/tLQmfWcRAoS1AJ9naNw5P393H04t1t2bsxwoj87Y/wCgpnoJ /92DXnupMST66HTw5CMn3kI= =KvQV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ni93GHxFvA+th69W-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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