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

[John Kozubik]

Roman,

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote:

> > >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....


It may be a moot point, as nobody has responded to this bounty.

However, FWIW, I will consider the requirements met if vmware 5.5 can be
made to run on either FreeBSD 6.x-R or 7.x-R.

Anyone ?