diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'emulators/vmware3/files/README.FreeBSD')
-rw-r--r-- | emulators/vmware3/files/README.FreeBSD | 82 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 82 deletions
diff --git a/emulators/vmware3/files/README.FreeBSD b/emulators/vmware3/files/README.FreeBSD deleted file mode 100644 index 39c78c75e363..000000000000 --- a/emulators/vmware3/files/README.FreeBSD +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -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. - -I'm using FreeBSD 4.0 -current system and don't know whether -this software will work on the 3.X branch. - -=== - -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 |