any chance to get vmware3 working for 5.4 release?

[vladimir at math.uic.edu]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:41:49AM +0900, NAKATA Maho wrote:
	> In Message-ID: <20050323023741.15805.qmail at cat.math.uic.edu> 
	> vladimir at math.uic.edu wrote:
	> 
	> > I tried vmware3 port on 5.4-BETA1 host, and it either locks
	> > the host machine solid or silently reboots it, as soon as the
	> > "Power on" button is pressed.  Has anyone succeeded running
	> > vmware3 on 5.4?
	> > 
	> > -CURRENT also started having the same problem around Feb 12.
	> try vmware4.5 :)
	> http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html
	> 
	
Did you try 4.5?
I've seen the web page before; however the patches didn't apply cleanly
to recent -CURRENT, and I also thought that 4.5 would need the 
same modules (vmmon, etc.) to run, and thus would suffer from
the same problem as vmware3.   But I'll give it another shot.

Thanks,
-- 
Vladimir