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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