[haiku] Re: VM tools for GCC4/x86_64 build?
- From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:03:12 -0800
On Mar 5, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 4, 2016, at 9:54 AM, waddlesplash <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What flavor VM tools - VirtualBox or VMware? VBox tools will be nigh
impossible (and are half broken anyway), VMware ones you probably just need
to build the package (or maybe they need x64 fixes, idk).
Is there a page you can point me to on how to build the package?
Never mind, I’ve found HaikuPorter.
HaikuPorter says that the VMware tools are known to be broken on x86_64. I
tried to force it to attempt the build to see just where the breakage was, but
it failed with an error about NoneType not being iterable.
Looking at the code, there’s a bunch of i386 assembly for the basic VMware RPC
mechanism. It seems it’d be easy to support x86_64 if the VMware RPC mechanism
uses the same messages for both architectures, and just needs some x86_64
assembly.
-- Chris
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