VMware3 + VMware4 support plans

[Andy Sparrow]

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Now the vmware3 port has been comitted. It already works well for
> one instance, beside some errors if you switch the windows too often.

<thunderous applause from the assembled masses>

Hey, that's great!!

> Orlanda has done most of the port and he will also be the
> port maintainer.

Thanks Orlanda!

> Our goal is to make it possible to run several instances
> of vmware at the same time. If that works, we will port
> vmware4 and extend the net support even more.

Wow, better and better...

> USB support will be tricky. Who would be the right one
> to ask for help here ? We would need to add USB-linuxulator
> support and that may be really tricky.
> 
> I'll commit next week a fix to the linuxulator to make it
> possible to use raw disks in VMware. This is still broken
> since FreeBSD 4.3, ouch ...

Uhh, not wanting to seem ungrateful for this tremendous (and much 
anticipated) work or anything, but could we get the following patch (or 
something functionally similar) from Igor committed at the same time?

	http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/patch.vn_cd.txt

It's extremely useful for persuading VMWare to accept a mounted ISO 
image as a real life CD-ROM. With this patch, VMWare just can't tell the 
difference.

I've been carrying it around since September, it still applies 
(relatively) cleanly to -STABLE and always worked perfectly :)

The patch doesn't include an updated man page - would a PR make it 
easier?

Regards,

AS


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