Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:59:24 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with vmware-3.2 Message-ID: <20030701195924.GB18509@ns1.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030701195038.GE2413@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20030701143122.GB792@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701174636.GB6789@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030701193405.GD2413@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701194317.GA18509@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20030701195038.GE2413@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > RH8 is at 2.4.18. The linuxulator sets the value to 2.4.2 as that > > was the kernel revision in RH 7.2 > > Therefore: try 2.4.18 > > > > Ahha, that appears to work: > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.18 > > I've since found that I was nailing the values in /etc/sysctl.conf, > #compat.linux.osname=FreeBSD > #compat.linux.osrelease=5.0-current > so that opera reported the correct things. This was actually the primary reason for having osname and osrelease in the first place: people wanted their Linux browser to report FreeBSD :-) BTW: you can have this on a per-jail basis, so you have a way to have opera report FreeBSD, while still making Vmware happy. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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