ports/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message, branch release/8.0.0

[UPDATE]: emulators/vmware3 - Various fixes and solution to crashes.

2006-04-28T22:23:27Z

I've discovered that the instant freezes when clicking 'Power On' can be fixed by disabling APIC support. ACPI support, on or off, didn't seem to solve anything. I'd like to know whether or not disabling ACPI has actually helped anyone at all, as it could be removed from the pkg-message if not. I've reflected this in a completely re-worked, step-by-step, more clear pkg-message file. I've also added a wrapper script for the vmware wizard, mentioned it in the pkg-message, and fixed various portlint complaints. For some reason, the wizard cannot be launched from within VMware itself. I have no idea as to what causes this. PR: ports/92871 Submitted by: Travis Poppe

Latest update from Orlando Bassotto, includes better

2004-07-08T08:26:34Z

network support.

Patch for FreeBSD 4.x was updated (now Power On always works as expected).

2003-11-05T01:40:46Z

Point to new patch location. Document sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed which should be set to 1 in order to run vmware3.

Make up to mention the needing of VFS_AIO to use VMWare properly.

2003-07-31T10:02:36Z

PR: ports/54417 Submitted by: Scott M. Likens Not objected to by: emulation

Style fix:

2000-04-04T19:03:36Z

- Remove post-install information from DESCR's. - Replace /usr/local with ${PREFIX} in DESCR's and MESSAGE's. - Remove unnecessary whitespace. Pointed out by: portlint

Here comes the VMware 2.0 port, finally.

2000-03-29T21:23:07Z

- Correspond to VMware 2.0 Build 476 release (not beta) - Support SMP kernel - Install VMware tools floppies (for Windows and Linux) - Add Hints.FreeBSD - Mention my unofficial `rtc' port on post-install - Raw disk may not work for the present - etc. Enjoy it!

- Add a tip (/tmp usage)

2000-03-25T23:02:49Z

Suggested by: des

- Clean up and minor fixes

2000-03-25T20:24:32Z

- Make portlint satisfy - Avoid creating files out of WRKDIR - Remove the void directory "patch" (What ever was this?) - Adjust whitespace - Fix some ungrammatical wordings - Modify COMMENT and DESCR - Drop fakeprocfs support due to the import of Linux procfs to the base system - Show MESSAGE after installation - Change maintainer to the -emulation list because: - Vladimir seems too busy or unreachable these days - This port depends very much on Linux compatibility stuff - Get it to check if the system has Linux procfs module and stop if not PR: ports/16960 (add WWW to DESCR) No response by: maintainer