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On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:57:20PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> There's a donation box on
> http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html for developers to get
> VMWare Workstation working on FreeBSD but the status of the project is
> unknown. There's also some indication someone is working on VirtualBox
> but that's probably in very early stages (and besides that, VirtualBox
> doesn't work reliably).

I have to disagree with the last VirtualBox comment.  It seems to work
quite well for the operating systems it supports (mostly Linux and
Windows as guests.)  Sadly, FreeBSD as a guest just doesn't seem to
fly.

Erik