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Subject: Re: vmware-player
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On 10/31/05, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org> wrote:
> > There's been no discussion on questions@ yet.
> >
> > Have you tried to run it?
>
> I doubt if it runs on FreeBSD.
>
> Reason: VMware Player is a reduced-feature version of VMware Workstation =
5.5
> that is not released yet (hopefully released RSN), and VMware Workstation=
 5.x
> is not ported to FreeBSD yet IIRC.
>
> --
> Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
>

I only need VMware to run FreeBSD on Windows or
Linux. So there's really no point in porting it, is there?

Qemu is a very nice virtualization solution. For
anything less than that we have jails, which are
getting better even as we speak.