vmware in -current

2006-07-14 Thread Alexey E. Suslikov
Peter Valchev wrote: Vmware has been broken in -current for a long time now by the PAE changes. If you have an interest in a working vmware in the next release, and want to try your hand at a hard problem, someone stepping up with a fix would be great. todd@ and mcbride@ should have

Re: vmware in -current

2006-07-14 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Alexey E. Suslikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it is a good idea to try make VMware Server work instead of old (3.x) Workstation? I think that would not be possible. VMware depends on a kernel module. But that module isn't open source AFAIK. Only the part that loads the rest of the binary

Re: vmware in -current (and alternatives)

2006-07-14 Thread Ian Darwin
Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: Peter Valchev wrote: Vmware has been broken in -current for a long time now by the PAE changes. If you have an interest in a working vmware in the next release, and want to try your hand at a hard problem, someone stepping up with a fix would be great. todd@ and

Re: vmware in -current (and alternatives)

2006-07-14 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So meanwhile I use qemu for the odd time when I need to use another OS. qemu has the same problem as VMware: The kernel module. It's really slow without the acceleration module. But maybe the it could be ported to OpenBSD? I know it's not Open Source, but it

Re: vmware in -current (and alternatives)

2006-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonathan Schleifer dixit: Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So meanwhile I use qemu for the odd time when I need to use another OS. qemu has the same problem as VMware: The kernel module. It's really slow without the acceleration module. But maybe the it could be ported to OpenBSD? I know

vmware in -current

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Valchev
Vmware has been broken in -current for a long time now by the PAE changes. If you have an interest in a working vmware in the next release, and want to try your hand at a hard problem, someone stepping up with a fix would be great. todd@ and mcbride@ should have details, and in fact posting them