freebsd-ports/emulators/vmware-guestd5/pkg-descr
Makoto Matsushita 1ebe8f4959 Dear VMware Workstation users around the world, here is an upgrade of
VMware Workstation FreeBSD-guest related ports for VMware Workstation
5.5.0 build 18463.

New features are:

- Spell "VMware Workstation" appropriately.
	There are much VMware products, it would be the time that I have
	to spell VMware Workstation as VMware Workstation.
- Support FreeBSD/amd64 since 64-bit binaries are provided from VMware.
	I don't test any of 64-bit related portion, since I have no
	FreeBSD/amd64 machine.  If something trouble please email me.
- New variable "WITH_VMWARE_GTK" (emulators/vmware-tools5)
	Install gtk version of VMware Tools if defined
	(add more dependencies on other gtk-related ports)
- New variable "WITH_VMWARE_VMXNET" (emulators/vmware-guestd5)
	Install "vmxnet.ko" kernel module (vmxnet driver) if defined
	Usage:
		- shutdown FreeBSD guest VM
		- add following line to FreeBSD guest VM config file
			Ethernet0.virtualDev="vmxnet"
		- Boot FreeBSD guest VM
		- load vmxnet.ko kernel module
		- ifconfig vxn0 ...
	New rc.conf variable "vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable" is also added
	to vmware-guestd.sh to load kernel module at startup.  However,
	${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh run _after_ /etc/rc.d/netif,
	so it maybe too late to load here...
	Note that vmxnet.ko supports FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE or later, and
	5.3-RELEASE and later (as VMware said).  I've confirmed that
	recent 7-current got 100% instant panic if vmxnet.ko is loaded.
- "vmware_guest_kmod_enable" is renamed to "vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable"
	Now this ports has two kernel modules now, old name is not
	appropriate one, hard to understand this variable is for which
	kernel module.  I also put backward compatibility code, but users
	of vmware_guest_kmod_enable please change variable name.

Bugfixes are:

- Resolve conflicts on ${PREFIX}/share/vmware-tools.
	Unfortunately both vmware-guestd5 and vmware-tools5 installs
	files to ${PREFIX}/share/vmware-tools directory.  Since this
	directory is only for vmware-tools, vmware-guestd5 doesn't do
	anything for now.
- WWW: line in pkg-descr points bogus page.
- Add note that there's official VMware Tools installer, and what is the
  difference between the two.

Finally, as usual, bump PORTVERSION.
2005-11-26 09:19:58 +00:00

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vmware-guestd daemon is for time synchronization with host OS and others.
Beware, this port is for FreeBSD _guest_ OS. You don't need to install
this ports to FreeBSD _host_ OS. This ports also installs a kernel modules
for FreeBSD guest.
If you want to run FreeBSD as a VMware guest OS, install this port
would help you. If you want to run X, install vmware-tools too.
This port assumes that a) users want only "must-have" binaries and
b) guest OS runs on a certain architecture and never be changed. For
those want full-feature of VMware Tools, use the installer bundled with
VMware Tools instead.
WWW: http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/