Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:23:24 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: George Kouryachy <frbrgeorge@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: successful installation of VMWare on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <790a9fff05051113237a27299e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f6879d2c05050106422133b9d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <1114782990.42723d0eccf1f@imp2-q.free.fr> <f6879d2c05050106422133b9d5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/1/05, George Kouryachy <frbrgeorge@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/29/05, hb4j@free.fr <hb4j@free.fr> wrote: > > has anyone been able to successfully install VMWare on FreeBSD ? (of co= urse with > > the linux compat) >=20 > You can also look at http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html for > VMWare4 unofficial port >=20 I had a look at the above site's freebsd.linuxator-gettid.diff patch to the FreeBSD kernel and these changes have been added to -CURRENT, as long as you have at least these revisions of the kernel sources VMware 4 should work on -CURRENT: sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c 1.44+ sys/i386/linux/linux_proto.h 1.61+ sys/i386/linux/linux_syscall.h 1.55+ sys/i386/linux/linux_sysent.c 1.62+ sys/i386/linux/syscalls.master 1.58+ If we could get someone to MFC these changes to the RELENG_5 branch, then VMware 4 should work there also. Scot
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