Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:
Peter Valchev wrote:
Vmware has been broken in -current for a long time now by the PAE
changes. If you have an interest in a working vmware in the next release,
and want to try your hand at a hard problem, someone stepping up
with a fix would be great. todd@ and mcbride@ should have details,
and in fact posting them to the list may be a good idea.
VMware Server is now free. See release notes here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
Maybe it is a good idea to try make VMware Server work instead of old
(3.x) Workstation?
VMWare Server is a totally different product than VMWare Workstation.
Quoting their web site, "VMware Server installs on any existing server
hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines
by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources,
giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility."
So you can download it for free, and try running OpenBSD under it, but
it's not supported - I'd be morbidly curious to see how far it gets, but
not interested enough to try setting it up on "raw iron".
However, what many of us want is to be able to run other OSes UNDER
OpenBSD, not run OpenBSD under a partitioning scheme like VMWare Server.
It's unfortunate that VMWare chose not to release the system interface
code for VMWare Workstation 5, which is why there is only a port of
it for VMWare Workstation 3. So meanwhile I use qemu for the odd time
when I need to use another OS.
