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

[John Kozubik]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:

> 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?


I'll paypal $500 immediately to whoever can commit to working on this.  I
will then work to raise another $500 from anyone who cares to donate to
this effort, with the goal of making (at least) a $1000 total payment upon
completion.

Finally, I will solicit additional funds on an ongoing basis such that the
project can be maintained and kept reasonably current.

Obviously these sums are not comparable to actual work for hire - the
assumption is that the (eventual) author also has a use for this and a
desire to make it available apart from this bounty.

I have never organized such an effort before, so I beg your pardon if I am
approaching it incorrectly.