I'd like help too. 

/Jakob Alvermark

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, 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.
> 
> I'm interested in helping with this, though.
> 
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
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