From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 12:40: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A3E15C01 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:39:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07728; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:34:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:34:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe To: Manfred Usselmann Cc: "Dongre, Prashant" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: VMWARE In-Reply-To: <19990924191959.D2707151E6@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:57:18 +0100 > From: Manfred Usselmann > To: "Dongre, Prashant" > Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" > Subject: Re: VMWARE > > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:39:22 -0400, Dongre, Prashant wrote: > > >Has anyone tried running vmware under FreeBSD/Linux emulation. > > > > I am very impressed by this software. > > I installed FreeBSD 3.2 as guest OS with NT 4 as host OS. I had no problems with the > installation. Networking does work too. Only problem I have is the X screen resolution. With > VGA16 it is OK but with SVGA I only get 320 x 200... The VMware Linux X-Server seems > not to work ( thats what the docu says, I did not try it myself). This would probably be the > solution. > > It would be very nice if it would even be possible to use FreeBSD as host OS, but currently > only Linux and Win NT/2000 can be host OS. Then you could have Win 98 for example in a > window on your FreeBSD system. > > I also tested Win 2000 as guest on my NT 4 box. Worked very well. For this combination you > need a lot of memory though. > > Manfred > Take a look at: http://www.freemware.org/ -Joe > > >TIA > >Prashant > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > Manfred Usselmann > usselmann.m@icg-online.de > -------------------------------------------------- > I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH > Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. > Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 > -------------------------------------------------- > http://www.icg-online.de > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message