From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 16:02:20 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 21106106564A for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:02:20 +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 DF0F88FC15 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:02:19 +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 1LkKhG-0003tU-U4 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:02:19 +0000 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:02:19 +0000 From: John Murphy To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090319160219.249fff07@asus> In-Reply-To: References: <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: Re: 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 16:02:20 -0000 On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:01:20 +0000 Rick N wrote: > I understand Vmware is commercial, but what about Sun's/OpenSolaris's xVM, (VirtualBox) its free. I haven't played with it in awhile but FreeBSD could be run as a Guest OS. Maybe the newer version can support FreeBSD hosting. Needless, its popular within alot of linux users, ... Hi Rick, Yes, I use VirtualBox regularly on my Linux-Mint desktop. It works extremely well, apart from its fledgling OpenGL support. It's great for those, thankfully rare, occasions when I need to run the Redmond software. -- Thanks, John.