From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 17 2:25:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01D014BF4 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 02:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA19686; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:25:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 19683; Mon May 17 11:24:42 1999 Message-ID: <373FE077.70243CE1@cdsec.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:25:11 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John & Jennifer Reynolds Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware--anyone playing with it? References: <373E36C7.6FB9AC22@primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John & Jennifer Reynolds wrote: > > http://www.vmware.com > > Is anyone playing with that VMware stuff? They say they have tested > FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.0, and 3.1 as "guest OS's" when using the linux > software (whatever that means :) ... just wondering if anybody has > messed with this. Sure would be nice to have it run under FreeBSD so > I could use those occasionally-needed Windud apps that I keep my Win98 > partition around for ... When the beta was first announced, there was a small but concerted effort amongst readers of this list to send mail to VMWare requesting that they consider supporting FreeBSD as a host O/S, not just a guest O/S. So, add your voice and send them some mail... -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message