From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 00:59:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 6D77C16A4CE; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:59:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2607243D41; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:59:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i6M0xPwD005931; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:59:26 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:59:24 -0400 To: Robert Watson From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmnet.ko missing - but it's there! - vmware and crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 22 Jul 2004 00:59:27 -0000 At 12:01 PM -0400 7/21/04, Robert Watson wrote: > >I've been wondering if we shouldn't bring the VMware modules into >the base source tree for some time -- the license is probably an >issue, but VMware is a valuable tool for development, and I'm >amazed at how frequently and accurately I shoot my feet due to >stale versions of the module ... It would be great to have more reliable support for VMware, as it can be a very helpful tool. I am also hopeful that the guys at http://www.serenityvirtual.com/ will eventually get to their virtual-machine product, which is supposed to run natively under FreeBSD. Right now they're still in the beta-version process, and they have not started to beta-test the product which will run with FreeBSD as the host OS. (perhaps they're waiting for 5.3-stable... :-). Right now my solution is to keep running VMware 2 on my freebsd 4.10-system. Neither of those are changing much, so that works well enough for my purposes. But if I had an option which would reliably work on a 5.x-system, that would be very helpful. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu