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. I'm interested in helping with this, though. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - [email protected] Work - [email protected] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
