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- Add support for FreeBSD bridging facility. To use it, you need a kernel built with `options BRIDGE'. - Integrate vmnet and if_tap code into vmmon module. - Install vmmon/vmnet1 pseudo-device nodes under /compat/linux/dev instead of /dev - Set TMPDIR to /var/tmp if empty. - Change MAINTAINER back to Vladimir N. Silyaev <vns@delta.odessa.ua>, now he is back and being active. :)
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VMware 2.0 for Linux on FreeBSD.
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$Date: 2000/01/23 22:28:10 $
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$FreeBSD$
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Introduction.
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This piece of software provides some basic support for running
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the VMware 2.0 for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0 and better ;) systems.
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What's done.
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At this time I was able to successfully run the following operation systems
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under VMware on FreeBSD:
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- FreeBSD 4.0 Current
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- Linux (Debian 2.1)
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- Windows NT
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- Windows 95 OSR2 (in safe mode :)
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- MS DOS 7.0 (Part of Win'95)
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I think that all platforms supported by VMware should work under FreeBSD.
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Installation procedure.
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The easiest solution is to obtain the vmware port and try to build it.
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The name of the port is vmware.tar.gz, and it can be downloaded from the
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following location:
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http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/vmware.tar.gz
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If you are like to use the linux proc filesystem emulator, you are need
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to install the next port:
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http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/linuxproc.tar.gz
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At build time, you will get further instructions on how to proceed.
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After a successful port installation you will need to obtain a license key
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to run VMware (you can use an old one for Linux). If you want to obtain
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a new key from http://www.vmware.com , you will have to select Linux as the
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'server' platform.
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Features currently unsupported
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- Fullscreen text mode
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- Mounting vmware virtual drive
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- Parallel ports were never tested. However, to support bidirectional
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transfers, we will need a FreeBSD version of the vmppuser driver.
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Caveats.
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- Onle one guest may be runned at one time.
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- Floppy disk detection currently doesn't work. It is assumed that
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a disk is always present in the floppy drive. Because of that, if you
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have enabled both IDE and floppy drives in the same VMware session, you
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_must_ select the right booting order in the Phoenix BIOS Setup.
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- Support only for Host networking. Doesn't have a bridgink networking
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But really this mean, that you are need to enable gateway on
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our FreeBSD box. And after that virtual machine can communicate
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with a rest of the world.
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Copyright issue.
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Unclear. My own code has a BSD-style copyright license,
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but in order to write it, I used VMware-copyrighted sources.
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In any case, I'm distributing only my own patch set, and all
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modified files retain the original copyright information.
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Author.
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Vladimir N. Silyaev.
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E-Mail: vsilyaev@mindspring.com
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