From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 02:43:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF32F106564A for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 02:43:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3438FC0C for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 02:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F9DF11CAC for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:28:08 +1000 (EST) Received: from Peter-Grehans-MacBook-Pro.local (c-50-134-156-129.hsd1.co.comcast.net [50.134.156.129]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 4.2.4-GA) with ESMTP id BBI12091 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:28:06 +1000 Message-ID: <4F065C34.8030300@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:28:04 -0700 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111213 Thunderbird/3.1.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Info: RDNS_DYNAMIC,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Junkmail-Status: score=8/51, host=dommail.onthenet.com.au Subject: BHyVe under VMWare Workstation8/Player4/Fusion4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:43:29 -0000 Not sure if many saw this, but as of svn change 228870, BHyVe can runs as a nested hypervisor under recent versions of VMWare desktop products on systems with VT-x/EPT: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=228870 Operation is described in the VMWare app note at: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970 Hopefully this will allow folk with recent laptops to try out BHyVe. later, Peter.