From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 11:08:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65671106564A; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:08:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scheidell@freebsd.org) Received: from mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net [216.134.223.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320B68FC0A; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (unknown [10.71.0.54]) by mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5DAD23C2E; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:08:32 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: SpammerTrap(r) VPS-1500 2.17 at mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net Received: from USBCTDC001.secnap.com (unknown [10.70.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C6CCD23C2B; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:08:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from MikeBook-Air.local (10.80.0.4) by USBCTDC001.secnap.com (10.70.1.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.722.0; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:08:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4F213433.8090505@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:08:35 -0500 From: Michael Scheidell Organization: SECNAP Network Security Corp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4F1B1C45.60902@freebsd.org> <4F21071D.3080805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F21071D.3080805@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD ports list Subject: Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:08:33 -0000 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. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO o: 561-999-5000 d: 561-948-2259 >*| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Best Mobile Solutions Product of 2011 * Best Intrusion Prevention Product * Hot Company Finalist 2011 * Best Email Security Product * Certified SNORT Integrator