Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 05:49:42 +0100 From: Ian J Greely <Ian@tirnanog.org> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare question Message-ID: <4a3hjs42nai1vsa2f5502if9ld9mg7uf7p@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <3935EA58.1FFB1752@S1.com> References: <3935EA58.1FFB1752@S1.com>
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Just the license file and quite a bit of patience. There are more than a few gotchas at present, though they are being worked upon.=20 I'm not sure if the port is working at 4.0 release or stable. It was working on 5 as of thursday but I believe there were a few "issues" with the NT / Doze installs. Something to do with the virtual drives etc.=20 regards, Ian On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 04:45:12 +0000, you wrote: >Hi y'all, > >in the next couple of weeks I should have my shiny new Dell Latitude >Laptop - and by then I should also have FreeBSD 4.0 :') > >My plan is (was) to load StarOffice (as I presently have on the current >desktop box) and use that to give me the 'MS-Office' compatability I >require (i.e. not a lot). I am, however, being pressured a bit to >'conform', and the company is now shelling out for licensed versions of >VMWare. > >I've just assisted with the installation of a RH6.1 system with VMWare >and then NT4/WS, and, apart from a few little glitches (mainly to do >with NT), we had it up and on the local NT Domain in less than 6 hours >(including a lunch-break). > >My question: what would I need to do to use the licensed (real) version >of VMWare on FreeBSD rather than the (I believe) 'trial' version that >comes in the ports? > >I'll have a closer peruse of ><http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/>; while I'm waiting for >comments here ;') > >Thanks and regards, > >haxxa > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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