From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 20: 1:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580FF37B479 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA302930; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:01:46 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E01A93F4B@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> References: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E01A93F4B@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:01:45 -0400 To: Drew Tomlinson , "'Rick Hamell'" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: VMware? (Was RE: installation woes) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:13 AM -0700 10/19/00, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >someone else wrote: > > You're looking for VMware... it runs anything on > > anything... In fact NT will run better on FreeBSD then > > NT by itself from what I've seen. It's obvious that > > you've a skewed outlook on how the computer > >It sounds too good to be true. Is VMware a real thing? Where >can I find more information on it. It does not quite "run anything on anything", but it is very useful. There is a version for WinNT, and a version for Linux. There is a freebsd port which gets the linux version working under FreeBSD. The linux version works better under linux than it does under freebsd (which is not much of a surprise), but it is still quite useful under freebsd. I use it to run either linux netbsd or win2k systems without having to shutdown freebsd on my system. In my experience, the latest version of the vmware2 port will probably assume you are running the latest version of freebsd-stable. Some discussion of vmware on freebsd can be found on the mailing list freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message