From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 15:21:20 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 B3B4A16A420 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B66A43D46 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 3474 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2006 15:21:20 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Jan 2006 15:21:20 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3DB4E28420; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:21:19 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "dima" References: <002a01c6202d$489c0740$08646464@x1> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 25 Jan 2006 10:21:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <002a01c6202d$489c0740$08646464@x1> Message-ID: <44vew89vv4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware 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: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:20 -0000 "dima" writes: > what the steps need to do in configuration files & programs, that install vmware_5.5 on FreeBSD_6.0 VMware has never supported FreeBSD directly. It has gotten harder and harder to get the Linux versions ported, and I don't know if anybody is trying any more; it's a lot less frustrating to just use open-source alternatives (which have rough edges but are obviously easier to modify).