Would it help to ask for a joint
Opensolaris.org/VMware project to
port the host OS kernel modules to Opensolaris?
The biggest hurdle isn't porting the kernel modules,
but rather the gazillion components that make up the
UI, daemons, etc. Since these components need to
build under the
Would it help to ask for a joint Opensolaris.org/VMware project to
port the host OS kernel modules to Opensolaris?
The biggest hurdle isn't porting the kernel modules, but rather the gazillion
components that make up the UI, daemons, etc. Since these components need to
build under the VMware
Would it help to ask for a joint Opensolaris.org/VMware project to
port the host OS kernel modules to Opensolaris?
On 9/12/07, Andy Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joerg writes:
Hi Andy, this reads as if there are plans to add
kernel components for Solaris
and FreeBSD allowing to use these
Hi,
Vmware has been published under GPL, see
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/index.php
It would be interesting to know whether Andrew Tucker (who
left Sun for VMware 2 years ago) has been involved in
opensourcing VMware ;-)
Jörg
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Yes, this is the source for the guest OS tools. Note that kernel components
are included for Linux, but not (yet) for Solaris or FreeBSD. The user level
components should work in Solaris. Also most of the user level code is
released under LGPL (with some BSD and MIT/X11), not GPL.
See the
Andy Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, this is the source for the guest OS tools. Note that kernel components
are included for Linux, but not (yet) for Solaris or FreeBSD. The user level
components should work in Solaris. Also most of the user level code is
released under LGPL (with
Joerg writes:
Hi Andy, this reads as if there are plans to add
kernel components for Solaris
and FreeBSD allowing to use these OS as Host OS in
future. Id this correct?
I was just talking about the drivers that run in the guest VM when tools
are installed (currently vmxnet, vmmemctl,
