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

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 3 14:54:31 UTC 2007


> >Vmware 5.5.3 will run with Linux kernel 2.4.x. [1]  In fact, it appears to
> >run on 2.2 as well.
> 
> A first try would be to backport some bugfixes (e.g. the mmap() fixes)  
> from -current (I can give a hint or two if someone is interested to do  
> this). After that determining what is needed by vmware would give a  
> hint where to proceed.

a lot of work went into -current linuxulator and I think that trying to identify
single change is not very productive. 7.0R is coming so I think we should just stick
with 7.x linuxulator....

just my 2 cents as I am not the one who do the actual MFCes ;)

roman


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