FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available

[George Hartzell]

Scot Hetzel writes:
 > On 10/12/05, stanley jobson <stanley.jobson at gmx.ch> wrote:
 > > hi,
 > >
 > > > - The QEMU and VMWare packages are known to expose problems in the
 > > >    IDE CDROM driver during OS install.
 > >
 > > will this be corrected for 6-stable?
 > >
 > > what about vmware 4 and vmware 5 having in the ports? anybody working on
 > > that? what are the probs?
 > >
 > I'm currently using vmware 5.5 on WinXP to host a FreeBSD guest.  But
 > in order to get FreeBSD as the host OS, we'll need to back port some
 > linux ioctl to RELENG_4, RELENG_5, RELENG_6 from  -CURRENT.  See my
 > MFC request from May 20th:
 > 
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050421.html
 > 
 >   Also, some one will need to re-write orlando's VMware 4 patch to
 > vmmon to work with Vmware 5.* and the VMware 3 vmnet patch to work
 > with VMware 4, and 5.*.

Is the vmware stuff ever likely to work w/ acpi enabled?  I'd been
running Vmware 3 successfully, but moved to an IBM T42p laptop and it
needs acpi enabled to run.

Thanks,

g.