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From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: are the vmware3* ports still needed?
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, John Nielsen wrote:

*snip*

> Anyway, I think that the emulators/vmware3 port should remain at least
> until a usable replacement appears. If there _is_ a compelling
> argument to axe it, a heads-up should probably go to a wider audience
> than -emulation, possibly including one or more of -ports, -questions
> and -stable.

I saw this changeset[1] for VirtualBox recently.  It offers a little
hope for another alternative.  Obviously, it is not complete, yet the UI
supposedly builds already on FreeBSD.

Sean
   1. http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/3680
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