Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:11:04 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x Message-ID: <462383F8.5050204@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com> References: <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <ygftzvuhk42.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> <462379F1.3050008@freebsd.org> <20070416063519.L35599@kozubik.com> <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com>
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On 04/16/07 09:04, Scott Robbins wrote: > 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. I think virtualbox does need to be ported, however, John makes a very strong point that vmware is becoming practically the de-facto standard for virtual machines, and if you can't load a vmware machine, people nearly give you funny looks. I would be happy with any virtual machine that worked with reasonable speed, but the vmware compatibility advantage is pretty large. Eric
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