Bug 164736

Summary: [handbook] FreeBSD handbook mentions running vmware via linux compat.
Product: Documentation Reporter: Adam K Kirchhoff <adam.k.kirchhoff>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Eitan Adler <eadler>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Adam K Kirchhoff 2012-02-03 13:10:09 UTC 
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.

Fix: 

Remove VMware from the list.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-02-03 15:28:50 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

reclassify.
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-02-06 03:26:02 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->eadler

I'll take it.
Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-02-06 03:30:48 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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Comment 4 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-02-06 03:33:00 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed. Thanks!