From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 13: 9:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.heartland.ab.ca (jasper.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7881523F for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca) Received: from darren.hagens.ab.ca (ppp5.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.133]) by jasper.heartland.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA24118; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:00:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Darren Wiebe Reply-To: dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com Organization: Hagen Homes Ltd. To: Joe , Manfred Usselmann Subject: Re: VMWARE Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:12:48 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Dongre, Prashant" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99092414144301.00585@darren.hagens.ab.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Freemware is still not beta software. It is sure coming along though. They really need somebody to do a port to freebsd. They have it for linux and beos but not the only REAL operating system. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Joe wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message