From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 21 04:48:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D21716A401 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:48:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C5713C45A for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:48:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so906117ugh for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:48:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=cKrkuArm65fLv7WE0vG1/GPkKwWAbVGmoyqI8OigKvNY/AB5TjhVGWefxJt2HI1fv7A0+kvTb7b4EYQx1azdDL9pO/Q0V7htuw8+6RGNIP60EpeLn3/LiOTtpgS6yJ1MDLBLnGlcYu20iEtlSAQWvlFu5mq8jv3czUXpd7pUSso= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=EUr/vLDDkfZjbX2zv3lLQm/SlGCADCzBn1rcyNQOhKzertvPHAu4oZhjT2AxYX1wHtMla/lN4Sb/26alxdBINvJJYgHNPTxgDaUaQ1QG3GvnFrXcJrr4YIU6/f4pL87eIap1gc4hdlsrBiee6xbG/kFFGC9B2wv2iZSRKFJWBKU= Received: by 10.66.239.18 with SMTP id m18mr3331676ugh.1177130904478; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.22.8.117? ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b33sm579192ika.2007.04.20.21.48.23; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4629979B.5090806@crackmonkey.us> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:48:27 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070405) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Adam J Richardson Subject: Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fatman@nospam.crackmonkey.nospam.us List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:48:26 -0000 youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows on >> FreeBSD >> as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass >> Storage, >> but e.g. Garmin GPS device with Garmin's MapSource.) >> >> Preferrably some free software. >> >> AFAIK wine cannot support usb devices, VMware Server 1.x does runs >> only on >> linux. >> >> Best regards, >> Milan >> >> -- >> Milan Knížek >> http://milan-knizek.net/ >> e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz > > Based on my experience VMware is the most complete VM that can deliver > this. However, there are people working on porting Xen to FreeBSD > (CURRENT I believe, not STABLE). > > So stay tuned for Xen if you're interested.. > > -Garrett > Does Qemu do what you want? I'm installing Windows 2000 Professional inside Qemu for some experiments. I don't know if it fulfils your USB requirement, but it's free and I hear it runs on FreeBSD pretty well. Hope this helps, Adam J Richardson