From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 22:27:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C742E16A417 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from crackmonkey.us (crackmonkey.us [70.58.166.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17BB13C469 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com (cpc1-swin7-0-0-cust216.brhm.cable.ntl.com [::ffff:86.18.88.217]) (AUTH: PLAIN fatman, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by crackmonkey.us with esmtp; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:27:07 -0600 id 0017C00B.46CE09C4.00005965 Message-ID: <46CE09A8.2010304@crackmonkey.us> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:26:48 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE 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, 23 Aug 2007 22:27:23 -0000 Hi all. Has anyone tried running VMware Player 2 for Linux under the FreeBSD Linux ABI? I'll give it a go myself, of course, but I'm interested in others' experiences. My RELENG_6_2 kernel/world build server works perfectly under the WinXP version of Player 2. I'm doing this because it'd be nice if I could suspend the VM, copy it to USB stick, transfer it to BSD and start it again, so I could use the Windows box for playing a game or watching a movie while the make runs. [I can't do that with the VM running. I find WinXP tends to panic if I try to run more than one application at once. Understandable really, since it only has 1GB RAM to play with.] I've installed the vmware3 port on my i386 6.2-RELEASE-p7 laptop, but of course that won't run Player 2 machines. Any thoughts? I don't know if anyone's interested to play with this VM, but if you are let me know and I'll put it on my website. Or a Torrent tracker maybe. It's not big, less than 400MB when compressed with 7-zip. A prepackaged USB stick sized kernel/world build server? Would that be useful to anyone apart from me? BTW the disk is only a 2000MB growable VMDK, so you can't use it for a distfiles repository or building ports. TiA, Adam J Richardson