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

[John Kozubik]

Alexander,

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> 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.



Vmware 5.5.3 will run with Linux kernel 2.4.x. [1]  In fact, it appears to
run on 2.2 as well.



[1]  http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/intro_hostreq_ws.html