From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 15:13:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3F016A4DA for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from admin.mwci.net (corp.yournetplus.com [162.42.148.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC1943D46 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:13:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) X-CGPBP-Filtered: Yes Received: from corp.yournetplus.com ([162.42.148.121] verified) by admin.mwci.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 24167907; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:13:05 +0000 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:13:05 +0000 (WET) From: Duane Hill To: Rico Secada In-Reply-To: <20060720153941.0437a7e8@dansknet.dk> Message-ID: <20060720151116.H92304@cgate.yournetplus.com> References: <6e4453640607192136l35f697bdie98468d305ebaed@mail.gmail.com> <1153376854.44bf22567478c@196.22.132.16> <20060720063509.P40165@cgate.yournetplus.com> <20060720153941.0437a7e8@dansknet.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:13:06 -0000 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Rico Secada wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:39:28 +0000 (WET) > Duane Hill wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, cknipe@savage.za.org wrote: >> >>> As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a Host >>> OS. i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD >>> inside VMWare.. >> >> That would be correct. I own a copy of VMWare for Windows and use it >> extensively to test out different scenarios with FreeBSD before touching >> our production server. Works like a charm! > > That is not correct! > > We use VMWare3 from ports on a FreeBSD machine at our datacenter and it's running Windows XP perfectly. VMWare3 from ports supports FreeBSD as a host perfectly. Yes. That is true. However, to take advantage of the new features that are provided in the latest v5.5, there isn't a way. Not only do they have that documented on their site, I've also spoken with someone prior to me purchasing the product. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons."