From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 14:48:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FABC1065670 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd32@freeode.co.uk) Received: from mail22.extendcp.co.uk (mail22.extendcp.co.uk [79.170.40.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3898FC15 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:48:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd32@freeode.co.uk) Received: from [78.33.177.2] (helo=asus) by mail22.extendcp.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) id 1LkJBE-0002gR-Kd for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:25:08 +0000 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:25:09 +0000 From: John Murphy To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090319142509.35e85d80@asus> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Talking of FreeBSD bounties, VMWare 6.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:48:19 -0000 Good afternoon, I'm not at all up to date with FreeBSD, but I remember being quite excited by the possibility of 'Vmware 6.x on FreeBSD', A $3,500 rsync.net bounty claimed by Orlando Bassotto in 2007. http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html I checked Mr Bassotto's web site shortly after reading the news and at increasing intervals over the months thereafter, but "a few weeks" is turning into a few years: http://www.break.net/orlando/ I wonder if anyone here knows of any progress? FreeBSD seems sadly lacking in the Virtualizer host department, while, IMHO it would make the perfect host: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host.html -- Thanks, John.