Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:58:50 +0200 From: Mark Huizer <mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990818145850.E17189@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com>
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Hi there, I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly that seems to be using Linux specific stuff, brrr..) But anyway: it looks feasable. Is anyone already working on this, or are some people interested in helping with this? As far as I can see, the linux emulation is good enough to run the vmware program, "all" you need to do is implement /dev/vmmon and /dev/vmnet, given the fact that the code is written really unportable, so there is some rewriting to be done. Then with the KLD's vmmon,vmnet and linux you should be able to run vmware. Mark -- Mark Huizer - Mark.Huizer@nl.origin-it.com - xaa@xaa.iae.nl Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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