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On 23/08/2010 1:31 μ.μ., Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:39:14 +0300
> Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote:
>
>   
>> Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble.
>> VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some
>> kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host is also FreeBSD!)
>> Have not tried very recent versions though, it may have improved.
>>     
> I presume people mean VMWare Workstation when talking about VMWare, and
> not other products like ESXi?
>
>   
Yes, I mean Workstation. I'd love to see ESXi in action but have no real
server-class machines around.