From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 21:51:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bart.callnet0800.com (bart.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98B937BA7D for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ian@tirnanog.org) Received: from smtp.f1racing.co.uk [212.67.128.141] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AEE2BE00072; Sat, 03 Jun 2000 05:51:46 +0100 Received: from da150d251.dialup.callnet0800.com [212.67.150.251] by smtp.f1racing.co.uk (SMTPD32-5.05) id AEC9B4B1005A; Sat, 03 Jun 2000 05:51:21 +0100 From: Ian J Greely To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare question Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 05:49:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4a3hjs42nai1vsa2f5502if9ld9mg7uf7p@4ax.com> References: <3935EA58.1FFB1752@S1.com> In-Reply-To: <3935EA58.1FFB1752@S1.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just the license file and quite a bit of patience. There are more than a few gotchas at present, though they are being worked upon.=20 I'm not sure if the port is working at 4.0 release or stable. It was working on 5 as of thursday but I believe there were a few "issues" with the NT / Doze installs. Something to do with the virtual drives etc.=20 regards, Ian On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 04:45:12 +0000, you wrote: >Hi y'all, > >in the next couple of weeks I should have my shiny new Dell Latitude >Laptop - and by then I should also have FreeBSD 4.0 :') > >My plan is (was) to load StarOffice (as I presently have on the current >desktop box) and use that to give me the 'MS-Office' compatability I >require (i.e. not a lot). I am, however, being pressured a bit to >'conform', and the company is now shelling out for licensed versions of >VMWare. > >I've just assisted with the installation of a RH6.1 system with VMWare >and then NT4/WS, and, apart from a few little glitches (mainly to do >with NT), we had it up and on the local NT Domain in less than 6 hours >(including a lunch-break). > >My question: what would I need to do to use the licensed (real) version >of VMWare on FreeBSD rather than the (I believe) 'trial' version that >comes in the ports? > >I'll have a closer peruse of > while I'm waiting for >comments here ;') > >Thanks and regards, > >haxxa > > >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