Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon Apr 2 07:55:09 UTC 2007


Quoting John Kozubik <john at kozubik.com> (from Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:34:34  
-0700 (PDT)):

> Is there anyone out there that has the time, expertise and background to
> implement Vmware workstation 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x, in as good (or better) a
> fashion as 3.x on FreeBSD 4.x was circa 2001-2002 ?

Do you know if vmware 5.x runs on Linux 2.4.x? If it does not run  
there, it will not run on FreeBSD 6.x. It may run on -current, we are  
working on improving the linuxulator there. There are no plans to  
merge the 2.6.x emulation (far from complete or bugfree ATM) to 6.x.

Bye,
Alexander.

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