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Subject: Re: VMware 5.5 w/FreeBSD as host OS?
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Brian J. McGovern wrote:

>All,
>VMware claims they "don't
>support it", but history has repeatedly shown me that "not supported" is
>not the same as "doesn't work".
>

Brian,

"not supported" means that if you use it, and it fails, you can't blame
VMware :-)

Personally, I've seen that their ESX server works with FreeBSD (Atleast
4.x in UP mode) as guest OS, but never as host OS - so in that area I
cannot help you.

- Nick.