FreeBSD VMWare

[Gary Jennejohn]

cajfox at mail.bg writes:
> I have VMWare for Linux -
> VMware-workstation-4.0.0-4460.tar.gz. So I have installed
> the /usr/ports/linux_base port. All was fine with the
> running of the instllation but at the point where it asks
> me to input the directory, where "insmod" was and then (as
> this article says:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-February/000808.html),
> where "modprobe" was I can't go any further. What are
> "insmod" and "modproble"? Everything else with the
> installation seems fine, until this point. I did the same
> that the article said, but I can't find "insmod" and
> "modprobe".
> 

insmod is like kldload under FreeBSD and tries to install a kernel module.
modprobe is a mechanism used by Linux to find a matching module for a
specific kernel service.

AFAIK FreeBSD does not support running Linux kernel modules so you can
forget about trying to run the Linux version of VMWare by just
installing it directly. There's a lot of magic involved to get VMWare
running under FreeBSD.

Currently the latest version supported in the ports tree is VMWare 3
(/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3). However, check out this site:
	http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html

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Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde