From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 14:04:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBB716A403 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from mail13.simplicato.com (mail13.simplicato.com [207.99.47.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DBB13C44C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from mail13.simplicato.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail13.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892C677B03F for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uws1.starlofashions.com (unknown [12.44.50.124]) by mail13.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE94F77B03E for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:04:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by uws1.starlofashions.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:04:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:04:54 -0400 From: Scott Robbins To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> <462379F1.3050008@freebsd.org> <20070416063519.L35599@kozubik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070416063519.L35599@kozubik.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:04:58 -0000 On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:41:18AM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > > > Did you get any takers on this? > > > > > No. Other than the two or three people (including yourself, IIRC) that > offered to perhaps kick in a few bucks, I have not had any response to > this. > I wonder if, as Eric (I believe) suggested, we would have better luck with VirtualBox. Disclaimer--I've only used qemu on FreeBSD, not Linux, so for all I know, VB's performance on Linux is no better than qemu's. However, I have to say that I found VirtualBox's performance on Linux to be equal to or better than (subjective impression, no benchmarks, and as I've said, I don't have heavy needs for an MS installation) vmware. My only problems with VirtualBox were in getting it to use bridged networking with a wireless connection. I had no problem when it was connected by cabled ethernet, but judging from a bit of googling, I'm not the only one who couldn't get it working with wireless. Disclaimer number 2--I'm not at all experienced with bridging in Linux, it seems to be a bit different than what I do with FreeBSD, and it could easily be a PEBCAK problem. -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: I lost a friend tonight and I may lose more! The whole world may be sucked into hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?! Let me take this opportunity to NOT care!