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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:08:35 -0500
From:      Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?
Message-ID:  <4F213433.8090505@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F21071D.3080805@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4F1B1C45.60902@freebsd.org> <4F21071D.3080805@FreeBSD.org>

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On 1/26/12 2:56 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On the plus side, we have dozens of production FreeBSD VM's running on a
> mid-size vSphere 4 development.
>
> On the minus side this is down significantly from this time last year.
> We are migrating to FreeBSD-on-KVM as fast as we can because VMware's
> support for FreeBSD is as others have described (i.e. bad), and KVM is
> coming along nicely. This is especially egregious when you take into
> account their steadily increasing pricing models.
>
> OTOH it's worth taking a closer look athttp://callfortesting.org/bhyve/
>
precisely the 'kick in the pants' we want to give them.

if they want FreeBSD based business, they need to give us some love.


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