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From: Adam Kirchhoff <adam.k.kirchhoff@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD handbook mentions running vmware via linux compat.
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>Number:         164736
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [handbook] FreeBSD handbook mentions running vmware via linux compat.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    eadler
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 03 13:10:09 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    Mon Feb 06 03:33:03 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb  6 03:40:11 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Adam Kirchhoff
>Release:        9.0-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD memory.visualtech.com 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #5: Thu Jan 26 22:09:39 EST 2012     root@memory.visualtech.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEMORY  amd64

>Description:

This section of the handbook should updated to remove the reference to vmware:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html

The linux version of vmware workstation 3 (iirc) was in the ports tree at one point, was removed a while back.  No newer version of vmware will work via the compat layer, at least not till someone were to port the vmware kernel modules again.  

I recently had a discussion with someone who erroneously thought they could get vmware workstation 8 working on FreeBSD because they read this line in the handbook:

In a nutshell, the compatibility allows FreeBSD users to run about 90% of all Linux applications without modification. This includes applications such as StarOffice, the Linux version of Netscape, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, VMware, Oracle, WordPerfect, Doom, Quake, and more. It is also reported that in some situations, Linux binaries perform better on FreeBSD than they do under Linux.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Remove VMware from the list.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Feb 3 15:28:50 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
reclassify. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164736 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->eadler 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Feb 6 03:26:02 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164736 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: eadler 
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 6 03:33:00 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed. Thanks! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164736 

From: dfilter@FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service)
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Subject: Re: docs/164736: commit references a PR
Date: Mon,  6 Feb 2012 03:30:48 +0000 (UTC)

 eadler      2012-02-06 03:30:39 UTC
 
   FreeBSD doc repository (src,ports committer)
 
   Modified files:
     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml 
   Log:
   It is no longer possible run VMware using linux emulation
   
   PR:             docs/164736
   Submitted by:   Adam Kirchhoff <adam.k.kirchhoff@gmail.com>
   Approved by:    gjb
   
   Revision  Changes    Path
   1.144     +0 -1      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml
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>Unformatted:
