VMware2 port fixes [was: Re: Linuxulator MFC and VMware]
Vladimir N. Silyaev
>> How often did you contact the maintainer and how much time did
>> you give him?
>
>As in multiple times and several weeks.
>
Oops, sorry guys. I've lost my v...@delta.odessa.ua E-mail acount about
month or so ago and I just figure out that recently. Unfortunatly at
the momemnt I can't solve that problem.
Could you please resend related patches to the vsil...@mindspring.com .
>>Anyway, it doesnt change anything structural, it is just to fix the build
>>process.
>
>> If we tried hard enough and didn't got a response, we're free to
>> fix the port without his explicit approval. I just verified that
>> the port builds on -current. With the patches applied, we need to
>> verify a build on -stable as well. I'll do the honours of noone
>> objects...
>
>Make it something like:
>
>if (FreeBSD_version > KSE_DATE)
> PATCHFILES+=vmware2_kse.patch
>
>Thanks for the effort btw.
>
>Mark
>
>ps. does any of you run a -current guest in vmware2 on a -current host?
I'm aware about problems to run -current as a guest. My guess is that
when NEWSMP has been introduced, vmware uses slow patch to emulate CPU,
unfortunatly it could be confirmed/solved only by folks from VMWare.
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Marcel Moolenaar
> on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:00:01AM +0100, Mark Santcroos wrote:
> >> How often did you contact the maintainer and how much time did
> >> you give him?
> >
> >As in multiple times and several weeks.
> >
> Oops, sorry guys. I've lost my v...@delta.odessa.ua E-mail acount about
> month or so ago and I just figure out that recently. Unfortunatly at
> the momemnt I can't solve that problem.
Oh, hi Vladimir; I didn't know it was you behind the email.
> Could you please resend related patches to the vsil...@mindspring.com .
I already committed a fix for current. I added a new patch file that
is used to patch the port on a post-KSE system. See Makefile rev 1.40
and files/kse.parch rev 1.1.
If you like, I can change the email address in the makefile,
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Vladimir N. Silyaev
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:14:33PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Oh, hi Vladimir; I didn't know it was you behind the email.
>
> > Could you please resend related patches to the vsil...@mindspring.com .
>
> I already committed a fix for current. I added a new patch file that
> is used to patch the port on a post-KSE system. See Makefile rev 1.40
> and files/kse.parch rev 1.1.
Good. I saw those patches before and they are look quite stright forward
to me.
Regarding the vmware problems with new linuxulator, I believe it's related
to the current situation with ioctls. The problem there that ioctl's with
the same name (number) are issued to the network layer and to the
device driver (/dev/vmmon) but they may have an different parameter
list and might need an diferent handling.
> If you like, I can change the email address in the makefile,
Yes, please. Probably I should the submit patches and change E-mail in
other ports as well.
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Thank you,
Mark Santcroos
great motivation for me :-)
Mark
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:04:37AM -0500, Alan E wrote:
> What can I do to help out?
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Mark Santcroos
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:15:50AM -0500, Alan E wrote:
> My native OS is FreeBSD 4.4-Release. I have VMWare3 for Linux.
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Alan E
> But how did you do your alpha&beta tests then?!
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:15:50AM -0500, Alan E wrote:
> > My native OS is FreeBSD 4.4-Release. I have VMWare3 for Linux.
I just switched to FreeBSD here (after 8+ years on Linux) in October. For a
number of reasons related to journaling filesystems and the lack of support
thereof in the Linus kernel, etc, I decided to go to a different code base
altogether, one that I knew had good foundations, a relatively organized way
of dealing with patches and features and upgrades, and wasn't fragmented all
over the map. Hence, FreeBSD.
Now I want to use VMware again, but I need a bit of a jump start from you
guys on what I should read, etc, so that I can understand (1) how the
Linuxulator works, (2) what's the deal with 6.x vs 7.x, (3) how the VMWare
LKM code works in FreeBSD, and (4) how do I help to fix this bugger?
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