From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 03:05:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412E116A421 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:05:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0018A13C46E for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l9K351PQ081784; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:05:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:04:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> <1192806195.39526.55.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <1192806195.39526.55.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710192304.48991.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Frank Staals 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: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:05:03 -0000 On Friday 19 October 2007, Frank Jahnke wrote: > 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). In addition to sponsoring and contributing to the bounty for this project, rsync.net is engaged in some discussion(s) with VMware to get and keep things moving for this newest port, although status updates are a bit hard to come by (perhaps intentionally). JN