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Make use of SUB_FILES. Use REINPLACE_CMD instead of perl. Miscellaneous other cleanups. PR: ports/96491 Submitted by: edwin Approved by: orlando@break.net (maintainer, timeout 2 weeks) |
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VMware 2.0 for Linux on FreeBSD. $Date: 2000/01/23 22:28:10 $ $FreeBSD$ Introduction. This piece of software provides some basic support for running the VMware 2.0 for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0 and better ;) systems. === What's done. At this time I was able to successfully run the following operation systems under VMware on FreeBSD: - FreeBSD 4.0 Current - Linux (Debian 2.1) - Windows NT - Windows 95 OSR2 (in safe mode :) - MS DOS 7.0 (Part of Win'95) I think that all platforms supported by VMware should work under FreeBSD. Installation procedure. The easiest solution is to obtain the vmware port and try to build it. The name of the port is vmware.tar.gz, and it can be downloaded from the following location: http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/vmware.tar.gz If you are like to use the linux proc filesystem emulator, you are need to install the next port: http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/linuxproc.tar.gz At build time, you will get further instructions on how to proceed. After a successful port installation you will need to obtain a license key to run VMware (you can use an old one for Linux). If you want to obtain a new key from http://www.vmware.com , you will have to select Linux as the 'server' platform. Features currently unsupported - Fullscreen text mode - Mounting vmware virtual drive - Parallel ports were never tested. However, to support bidirectional transfers, we will need a FreeBSD version of the vmppuser driver. Caveats. - Onle one guest may be runned at one time. - Floppy disk detection currently doesn't work. It is assumed that a disk is always present in the floppy drive. Because of that, if you have enabled both IDE and floppy drives in the same VMware session, you _must_ select the right booting order in the Phoenix BIOS Setup. - Support only for Host networking. Doesn't have a bridgink networking But really this mean, that you are need to enable gateway on our FreeBSD box. And after that virtual machine can communicate with a rest of the world. Copyright issue. Unclear. My own code has a BSD-style copyright license, but in order to write it, I used VMware-copyrighted sources. In any case, I'm distributing only my own patch set, and all modified files retain the original copyright information. Author. Vladimir N. Silyaev. E-Mail: vsilyaev@mindspring.com