Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:44:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: garyj@muc.de Cc: mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199908201844.UAA40242@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199908192040.WAA27646@peedub.muc.de> from Gary Jennejohn at "Aug 19, 1999 10:40:23 pm"
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It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Mark Huizer writes: > >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. > > > > Soren mentioned that he might look into it a few weeks ago, but that's the > last thing I remember seeing. Yup, I have the files here, and have given it a quick look, doesn't look to difficult to do, but I havn't had time yet to get into the matter.. It will probably be awhile before I do have the time though, but if nobody else does it I'll get to it sooner or later... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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