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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:35:17 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
To:        Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca>, David von Stetten <stetten@gi.alaska.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmware and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19991202213517.58671@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <3846E427.D78C0504@heartland.ab.ca>; from Darren Wiebe on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:27:03PM -0700
References:  <99120220480100.00526@goliath> <3846E427.D78C0504@heartland.ab.ca>

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On Thursday,  2 December 1999 at 14:27:03 -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote:
> David von Stetten wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody....
>>
>> When I read a couple of days ago that the linux version of vmware now runs
>> on FreeBSD I got all excited, but then I noticed that this was only the
>> case for -current. I am using FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE, so I was wondering if
>> there would be any way to get vmware to run on this version? Maybe by
>> pgrading the linux emulator or something....
>>
>> Any comments on the subject would be highly appreciated! :-)
>
> Wishing exactly what I am...  You could probably update to current.  I
> tried upgrading but I cannot get it to build, I guess that means that I
> should not be running it yet...  I should tell you to go to -current
> because the handbooks says NEVER to do it just for new toys... :-)  It
> would take a bit of work to get it to work I think.  It could probably
> be done in -stable, I don't know about 3.3 release though...

Before you get too worried about the situation, consider that
4.0-RELEASE is scheduled for 15 January 2000.

Greg
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