vmnet.ko missing - but it's there! - vmware and crashes

[Dick Davies]

* Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> [0759 01:59]:
> At 12:01 PM -0400 7/21/04, Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> >I've been wondering if we shouldn't bring the VMware modules into
> >the base source tree for some time -- the license is probably an
> >issue, but VMware is a valuable tool for development, and I'm
> >amazed at how frequently and accurately I shoot my feet due to
> >stale versions of the module ...
> 
> It would be great to have more reliable support for VMware, as
> it can be a very helpful tool.  I am also hopeful that the guys
> at http://www.serenityvirtual.com/ will eventually get to their
> virtual-machine product, which is supposed to run natively under
> FreeBSD.  Right now they're still in the beta-version process,
> and they have not started to beta-test the product which will
> run with FreeBSD as the host OS.  (perhaps they're waiting for
> 5.3-stable... :-).
> 
> Right now my solution is to keep running VMware 2 on my
> freebsd 4.10-system.  Neither of those are changing much, so
> that works well enough for my purposes.  But if I had an option
> which would reliably work on a 5.x-system, that would be very
> helpful.

I know we're veering OT here, but are there any plans to support
 Xen?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

It seems like an promising alternative to vmware or jails for
shared hosting environments...

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