From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 13 14:07:06 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 8D3C516A407 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:07:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AF343D99 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:06:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:06:19 -0400 id 0005642C.452F9D5B.00004DEF Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 13 Oct 2006 10:02:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:06:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Davison, Robert" Message-Id: <20061013100618.71b92292.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4D9611F5D2ACC24086B59D10BBBE54790B9EAE76@dlebir_ex1.dluk.net> References: <4D9611F5D2ACC24086B59D10BBBE54790B9EAE76@dlebir_ex1.dluk.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:07:06 -0000 In response to "Davison, Robert" : > I'm looking to run VMware on my FreeBSD box and note that version 3 is in the ports. > > I've not tried running Linux software ontop of FreeBSD, but how easy is it to download the free VMware Server software off their site and install so I get the most recent version, and more importantly a free one. > > Is it just a case of downloading and installing the binary through the usual route or is it a bit more complex ? What's wrong with your email? I got a bunch of HTML at the end? Anyway, VMWare is a special case. It's got hooks deep into the Linux network drivers that (as far as I know) are a showstopper that prevents VMWare from running under the Linuxulator. If you learn differently, I'd love to hear it, but it's not possible as far as I know. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.