Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:02 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vmware 3.2 Message-ID: <20030204144810.L2042-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <44adhcjdhx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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There was a port of vmware2 to freebsd before. It doesn't require having access to the closed-source part of vmware 3, in fact, the port should for the most part be pretty straightforward, I was planning on trying it but I ran out of time and won't have time again until June at the earliest. Ken On 4 Feb 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes: > > > Does anyone know if somebody working on a port for vmware3.2? > > The difference between version 2 and 3 is very noticable, so I would be > > very happy w/ a running vmware3.2 under freebsd. I'm not able to do > > proting myself and thus can only hope someone will. > > I wouldn't hold my breath. The application is closed source, and the > Linux version requires kernel modifications to make the application > work. The obvious candidate for this project would be VMWare > themselves; if you ask them, you can tell them that *I* would buy the > product if they supported it on FreeBSD... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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