successful installation of VMWare on FreeBSD ?

[Scot Hetzel]

On 5/1/05, George Kouryachy <frbrgeorge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/05, hb4j at free.fr <hb4j at free.fr> wrote:
> > has anyone been able to successfully install VMWare on FreeBSD ? (of course with
> > the linux compat)
> 
> You can also look at http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html for
> VMWare4 unofficial port
> 
I had a look at the above site's freebsd.linuxator-gettid.diff patch
to the FreeBSD kernel and these changes have been added to -CURRENT,
as long as you have at least these revisions of the kernel sources
VMware 4 should work on -CURRENT:

    sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c 1.44+
    sys/i386/linux/linux_proto.h 1.61+
    sys/i386/linux/linux_syscall.h 1.55+
    sys/i386/linux/linux_sysent.c 1.62+
    sys/i386/linux/syscalls.master 1.58+

If we could get someone to MFC these changes to the RELENG_5 branch,
then VMware 4 should work there also.

Scot