Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:15 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Cc: punosevac@math.arizona.edu, questions@freebsd.org, aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Subject: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd Message-ID: <1192806195.39526.55.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> References: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net>
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On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank Staals wrote: > > 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. The same fellow is doing the port. I haven't corresponded with him for a while, so I can't really say what the current status is. Quite some time ago the issue was getting VMware to discuss what goes on in their kernel module (IIRC). > > It would be great if FreeBSD could be a VM-host. Agreed. For me it is the biggest problem with using a FreeBSD desktop. One other sign of hope: there has been intermittent work on a port of VirtualBox. When I checked last, the GUI environment would build. That's certainly not a complete VM yet, but it is one necessary piece.help
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