Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:02:51 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with vmware-3.2 Message-ID: <20030701210251.GB3584@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030701195924.GB18509@ns1.xcllnt.net> References: <20030701143122.GB792@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701174636.GB6789@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030701193405.GD2413@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701194317.GA18509@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20030701195038.GE2413@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701195924.GB18509@ns1.xcllnt.net>
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--cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:59:24PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > >=20 > > > RH8 is at 2.4.18. The linuxulator sets the value to 2.4.2 as that > > > was the kernel revision in RH 7.2 > > > Therefore: try 2.4.18 > > >=20 > >=20 > > Ahha, that appears to work: > > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=3D2.4.18 > >=20 > > I've since found that I was nailing the values in /etc/sysctl.conf, > > #compat.linux.osname=3DFreeBSD > > #compat.linux.osrelease=3D5.0-current > > so that opera reported the correct things. >=20 > This was actually the primary reason for having osname and osrelease > in the first place: people wanted their Linux browser to report > FreeBSD :-) >=20 > BTW: you can have this on a per-jail basis, so you have a way to > have opera report FreeBSD, while still making Vmware happy. > =20 Swell :) J. --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj8B9voACgkQXVIcjOaxUBb9rACdGwPP8QLBY50YL9g9aZ6AVeKd cUQAoMjmvdeFwFYlC30FW7Aq2tFr054L =YRCn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87--
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