Re: vmware-guestd on vmware hosted Windows

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 04:32, Masahide -mac- NODA wrote:
> Sorry, this is repot only.
> 
> I'm upgrading from 2003/08/19 current to 2003/08/30 current on vmware
> 3.x(host OS is Windows), and I tried to run vmware-guestd,
> 
>    # ./vmware-guestd
>    ELF binary type "0" not known.
>    /usr/local/sbin/vmware-guestd: Exec format error.  Wrong Architecture
> 
> I suggested on IRC, try
> 
>   # brandelf -t FreeBSD ./vmware-guestd
> 
> I tried this and succeceed to run vmware-guestd. 
> 
> Before brandelf -t, brandelf result is, 
> 
>   % brandelf vmware-guestd
>   File 'vmware-guestd' is of brand 'SVR4' (0).
> 
> and after brandelf -t is,
> 
>   % brandelf vmware-guestd
>   File 'vmware-guestd' is of brand 'FreeBSD' (9).
> 
> 
> Any comments?

If memory serves, you'll need COMPAT3x in order to use that. 
Unfortunatly VMWare really hasn't updated their drivers, since well
FreeBSD 3.x

I could be wrong, if i am tell me.

But that's what I remember.