hi,
attached is a tarball of two ports. one is of marius eriksen's LKMs to
support vmware3 and the other is vmware3 proper. you will need a
license to run it...
this is basically a (working) preliminary port to see what issues people
run into and how the documentation needs to be fleshed out. the
skeleton steps are documented here:
${PREFIX}/share/doc/vmware3/README.OpenBSD
stuff you shouldn't ask me about:
1) where to get a license
2) when there will be a vmware4 port (emul stuff needs some work)
3) why it doesn't work on an old version of OpenBSD (i think anything
after 08/16 3.4-beta/-current should be OK)
4) anything documented in README.OpenBSD
the ports themselves need clean-up. specifically, the scripts for
vmware/openbsd need better logic/error handling. vmware/3 needs the
PLIST cut down so that only the modules that are actually used are
installed (and a better do-install method too). if anyone wants to take
these ports and run with them, i'd be more than happy to pass
maintainership.
stuff that isn't in the documentation:
1) floppy34.fs crashes
2) the wizard crashes reading /proc/meminfo (or did last i checked),
you will have to config vmware manually.
3) the warning about not being able to initialize a SVGA console
can be quelled by turning off ttyC5.
i think that's it.
thanks to marius for making this possible and being patient answering
my numerous questions.
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