Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:15:38 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vmware3 not supported--why? Message-ID: <20030703001537.GB83261@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030702094032.GA8424@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20030702094032.GA8424@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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--H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:40:32AM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > Does anybody know why us users of FreeBSD-4.8 are left out of support of > vmware version-3? What can be the reason that _only_ fbsd5 and up is > supported? The latter *IS* a developers branch, so everybody w/ > production machines can only use vmware-2.x, which is much slower than > the later version 3.x Because the required kernel modules have only been ported to FreeBSD 5.x. Feel free to port the code to 4.x yourself, offer money to the original porter to do it himself, etc. Remember this is a volunteer project. Kris --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/A3WpWry0BWjoQKURAqKdAKCNAfMaIMBov3c09C/XOTnCtOM1wQCg+SBy 1GGfdvsRn5mSblvzUODlmao= =9dMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig--
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