From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 22:15:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532F616A49A for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE03243D49 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:15:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:15:47 -0400 id 00056413.449C6813.00016F52 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Jun 2006 18:06:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:15:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: YTResearch Message-Id: <20060623181547.592ac6dc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <6C8C7DFA-4F36-4FA6-816F-744149C6C747@hughes.net> References: <6C8C7DFA-4F36-4FA6-816F-744149C6C747@hughes.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and VMWare 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, 23 Jun 2006 22:15:49 -0000 In response to YTResearch : > I noticed that someone asked questions concerning VMware on FreeBSD > which was my first realization that the two even go together. I have > the opportunity to advocate FreeBSD as a possible replacement to run > that software as a parting shot in the next week prior to finally > retiring from that organization. They are a very large windows > operation but are putting in some Linux/VMware to reduce the windows > server hardware platforms (I already know that this is of dubious > value when they could natively migrate and just eliminate the > servers, efficiency is not an option in the corporate world paradigms). > > Before I actually recommend they do this on ~80 servers, I would like > to verify that it really can be done to move to a FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE/ > VMware environment to support W2K3 and E2K3 on a virtual machine? Has > anyone done this? FreeBSD 6 runs fine _inside_ vmware -- as a virtual machine. I used it daily with almost no trouble (and the small amount of trouble is likely to be unrelated to vmware). I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.