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

[Eric Anderson]

On 04/03/07 14:40, John Kozubik wrote:
> 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 ?


Maybe if you put the amount of the bounty you'd get more bites?


Eric