Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:43:06 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: VMware Message-ID: <790a9fff0511220743r47c19c5en155e8bbf250d1e09@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051122105920.o8o26071no0wwc4w@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20051121040836.I47999@andrsn.stanford.edu> <cb5206420511210532s7e9a3b2fp2d2bb7770d013894@mail.gmail.com> <20051122105920.o8o26071no0wwc4w@netchild.homeip.net>
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On 11/22/05, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: > "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We have bochs and qemu, which are wonderful at > > emulation of different architectures. If vendors want > > so, and will do (or sponsor) the appropriate work, > > we'll welcome Virtual PC and VMware software. If > > you want to do this work yourself - for free - you'll > > be welcome, too. > > There are patches for the linuxolator available somewhere to let a more > recent version of vmware run on FreeBSD. So far no src/committer showed > interest in committing them... > The patches to add the gettid syscall to the linuxolator were commited to 6.x-CURRENT (now in 6.x and 7.x), but haven't been MFC'd to 5.x. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c?re= v=3D1.44&content-type=3Dtext/x-cvsweb-markup&f=3Dh This patch is similar to orlando's patch to the linuxolator, except that the change was made to a different file sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c instead of sys/compat/linux/linux_misc.c. http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html Are there any other patches need for the linuxolator, besides orlando's pat= ch? Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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