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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 22:44:06 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3?= Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Micha? Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>, jehova <tornadox@telnor.net>, emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: vmware ask for init directories
Message-ID:  <20020502204406.GA20362@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20020502224240.GA51177@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser [Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:42:40PM +0100]:
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:30:45PM +0200, Micha? Pasternak wrote:
> > 
> > > There should be nothing technically stopping it from running on FreeBSD,
> > > it just hasn't been "ported" yet.
> > 
> > Well, I know that there is a possibility, that someone, someday, etc, etc,
> > but do I really have to wait? I guess not.
> > 
> 
> If you really really need to run it you could always help port it.

... or use Linux.

> If you search the mailing list there appears to already be some code for
> the loadable kernel bits:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=24234+26749+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-emulation/20011014.freebsd-emulation
> 
> The bit that's missing is pulling apart the linux install script to
> understand how it works and what it does.  When I ran the 3.1 binary it
> complained that the install script hadn't run and produced a
> configuration file; the install script doesn't complete because it's too
> linux focussed.

IMO it's all about vmware kernel module.

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