From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 15:14:08 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 C632C16A468 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E14913C48A for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:14:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2007 14:47:26 -0000 Received: from ip176-173-59-62.adsl.versatel.nl (EHLO Rena.FStaals.net) [62.59.173.176] by mail.gmx.net (mp044) with SMTP; 19 Oct 2007 16:47:26 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25365336 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ca/Eo9eecj+0V2oAfkmqX4rQTIm2mx656+PbiRr /IhHk32kKkDxUf Message-ID: <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:47:20 +0200 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jahnke@sonatabio.com References: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: punosevac@math.arizona.edu, questions@freebsd.org, aryeh.friedman@gmail.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 15:14:08 -0000 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 Anyway; VM's and FreeBSD don't go well indeed :( vmware3 is just outdated, it won't work as Xen host (yet; ..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. -- -Frank Staals