From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 14:59:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E21616A420 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7C513C4B3 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so474458wxd for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:59:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8/IEter+e/Az305fVzPrYO0ilkWklGGkpSCnWj46r74=; b=tkiYvm6eVMOr0oc4tYWnTW91HCwla54Rbd5CgmJC9gsGFtS4UQ8LUvYtyA6frKqUii1vXODg6kAjxtqCO9xvRCFK8KEQAuPqeXo7729vKk7lfc2ZfFdfSueUUXIfPeKIROrgfnyo/Akam+3DbB5V9INY98VX6NyUyEa1wBRmEXw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Q2n+KKdOoMI9QVEb0QDYB35KSQy18vdrhuz6b8yNdI7uXkoOv6v+8NY1K0ii6Cuz4d8D3yk+QWyqQknjpQa13ORTOctt0buKOcvqLtiwg9B7MQQjBo0khL3P5HwwcDI9KUgEW2rohqaAwIOgnkz7M0m1v+Qtvz0UjwNU9NMSRLw= Received: by 10.90.95.11 with SMTP id s11mr3074920agb.1192805512662; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b37sm3130386ana.2007.10.19.07.51.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47188BB9.7080707@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:49:29 +0000 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071016) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Staals References: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: punosevac@math.arizona.edu, questions@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Subject: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd 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: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:59:14 -0000 Frank Staals wrote: > Frank Jahnke wrote: >> VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the >> most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. I do hope this >> works, because right now things in the VM world on FreeBSD truly are >> bleak. >> >> Frank >> >> > What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I did some research > on it some time ago but the best I could find was that there was > someone porting vmware-workstation 4.5.X to FreeBSD allthough there > were quite a lot problems so there wasn't much progress it seemed. > > Anyway; VM's and FreeBSD don't go well indeed :( vmware3 is just > outdated, it won't work as Xen host (yet; .. it was on the SoC list, > but I'm not sure how much has become of it ) and qemu is a nice > attempt but it's just not good enough ( especially since kqemu locks > up my system in CURRENT ). It would be great if FreeBSD could be a > VM-host. > Sort of off topic but an other thing (besides run vista) I eventually want to do is use it as a OS developement platform (writing an OS from the ground up)