Updated VMWare3 port needs some testing

[Andy Sparrow]

> > I ever thought vmware3 is not available for 4.x?
> > Did I miss something?

> I haven't personally run vmware3 on 4.x recently, but I believe that it
> does work.
> 
> You might have stumbled into a conversation where people were talking
> about running vmware4, which is _not_ currently support on any version of
> FreeBSD.

Hi,

I thought the same thing as Stefan, I've tried several times since I saw 
the VMWare3 port show up, but never got it to run on 4.x. However, my 
copy of VMWare 2 continues to work great.

I'm running -STABLE from Sunday, and did a both-directions-recursive 
'portupgrade' at the same time, (with some mopping-up afterwards), so 
I've got a fresh copy of linux_base-7.1_7 and all ports are in-sync. I

* downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz, 
* built a new kernel with VFS_AIO option (and rebooted)
* set kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1, 
* pkg_delete'd the VMWare 2 port

and did a 'make install' for your patched port. 

(The "uncommited kernel patch" referred to by the Makefile appears to be 
already incorporated, but in a different style? In any case, it no 
longer applies cleanly.)

I got:

Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp.


VMware Workstation Error:
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

Press "Enter" to continue...

VMware Workstation Error:
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

Press "Enter" to continue...



VMware Workstation Error:
Failed to initialize monitor device.

Press "Enter" to continue...



VMware Workstation Error:
Failed to initialize monitor device.

Press "Enter" to continue...


The 'vmnet1' interface shows up in 'ifconfig', and 'kldstat' shows 
vmmon_up as being loaded.

If there's anything I can do to help get this working, let me know. 

Cheers,

AS

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