successful installation of VMWare on FreeBSD ?

[hb4j at free.fr]

thanks a lot Scott :o)

hb4j

> On 5/1/05, George Kouryachy <frbrgeorge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/29/05, hb4j at free.fr <hb4j at free.fr> wrote:
> > > has anyone been able to successfully install VMWare on FreeBSD ? (of
> course with
> > > the linux compat)
> >
> > You can also look at http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html for
> > VMWare4 unofficial port
> >
> I had a look at the above site's freebsd.linuxator-gettid.diff patch
> to the FreeBSD kernel and these changes have been added to -CURRENT,
> as long as you have at least these revisions of the kernel sources
> VMware 4 should work on -CURRENT:
>
>     sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c 1.44+
>     sys/i386/linux/linux_proto.h 1.61+
>     sys/i386/linux/linux_syscall.h 1.55+
>     sys/i386/linux/linux_sysent.c 1.62+
>     sys/i386/linux/syscalls.master 1.58+
>
> If we could get someone to MFC these changes to the RELENG_5 branch,
> then VMware 4 should work there also.
>
> Scot
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>