Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:00:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x Message-ID: <20070402145854.F35599@kozubik.com> In-Reply-To: <20070402095502.ejpfl6sk4sokwo4c@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20070401121154.O35599@kozubik.com> <20070402095502.ejpfl6sk4sokwo4c@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Alexander, On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> (from Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:34:34 > -0700 (PDT)): > > > Is there anyone out there that has the time, expertise and background to > > implement Vmware workstation 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x, in as good (or better) a > > fashion as 3.x on FreeBSD 4.x was circa 2001-2002 ? > > Do you know if vmware 5.x runs on Linux 2.4.x? If it does not run > there, it will not run on FreeBSD 6.x. It may run on -current, we are > working on improving the linuxulator there. There are no plans to > merge the 2.6.x emulation (far from complete or bugfree ATM) to 6.x. Vmware 5.5.3 will run with Linux kernel 2.4.x. [1] In fact, it appears to run on 2.2 as well. [1] http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/intro_hostreq_ws.html
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