Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:31:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and linux loadable modules Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903162126390.47099-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199903162044.MAA00623@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > > > > > I was looking over the vmware product (http://www.vmware.com/) and it seems > > > to require the linux equivalent of KLDs. Is it possible to load and use > > > these on FreeBSD? > > > > No, the internals of the kernel are different. The easiest way to try vmware > > is to install Linux or WinNT and use FreeBSD as a guest OS. > > > > I don't expect emulation of loadable kernel module support. > > At this point in time, VMware is unable to run FreeBSD. Yet again, we > push the emulation authors' envelopes. I thought *BSD was supported as a client OS or has some feature of current broken this? I haven't had a chance to play with vmware yet. I'm seriously tempted to install Linux just to try it out. > > However, there is some interest inside the company for a FreeBSD > version, so we may see a skunkware release at some stage. Now that would be damn useful to me as long as there was a way to hook up kernel gdb (maybe through an emulated serial port). On the other hand, most of the stuff I am working on needs real hardware.. Does Bochs boot FreeBSD yet? Last time I tried, it fell over during clock initialisation (to get that far, I had to disable APM). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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