vmware 4.5.2

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

otto пишет: 
> Hi there :)
> 
> I'm glad to announce the success porting of vmware 4. (that is 4.5.2 
> build 8848)
> 
> You will find a diff to vmmon sources on my website
> http://www.break.net/orlando/vmware4/
> 
> Consider it as an alpha release, I'm going to revamp the version 3
> and start support for GSX server.  I would like to thanks people at 
> VMware
> which gave me a serial for version 4 and GSX to work on (better than 
> nothing :).

Is any estimations about corresponding port ? 

> Few things before you play with it:
> 
>      - If you have freezes or ATA failures be sure ACPI is disabled
>      - Ensure kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed to be 1
>      - Ensure you have aio module loaded
> 
>      - Networking has been untested, I just spent 3 days on all this 
> (it's enough and
> i'm on vacation... well for few days :) anyway the netgraph solution 
> adopted with vmware 3
> in the ports should be just fine.
>      - USB does not work yet
>      - SMP part is almost there, I have to take the last few strength to 
> import APIC/IO APIC
> detection and it should be working -I hope, i don't have an SMP machine 
> to test-
>      - RTC support is missing, I will have a look at it
>      - No installation script is provided, I used to run it from 
> vmware/lib/bin directly.
>      - I didn't try to use it as non-root but missing installation 
> scripts and debugging was useless.
>      - In any case of failure compile the module without -DNDEBUG, save 
> all the garbage
> produced by the module (it will produce alot) and enable debugging 
> options in vmware itself,
>         mail me messages and vmware.log you'll find in the vm directory
> 
> In general, consider installing vmware 3 to ensure all files in 
> /compat/linux/dev are
> present.
> 
> Let me have feedback on the thing.
> 
> Ciao! and Happy New Year!
> Orlando
> 
> 
> 
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Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru