Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:00:22 -0400 From: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> To: "Simon Chang" <simonychang@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Brezny <peter@purplecat.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization. Message-ID: <6ae50c2d0804211100n207eb4d7jfd9a105702c9e124@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8efc42630804211052u47d1c483m992536451406b003@mail.gmail.com> References: <000001c8a3cd$af7961d0$0b01a8c0@k62500> <8efc42630804211052u47d1c483m992536451406b003@mail.gmail.com>
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there is always XEN or worse case scenario is jail On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Simon Chang <simonychang@gmail.com> wrote: > > Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there > > currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for > > popular VM applications. > > I hear your pain. However, VMware is a commercial company one of > whose responsibilities is their bottom line. I have heard it said > many, many times on this and other FreeBSD discussions that, if > commercial companies hear from the end-users and system > administrators, they would pay more attention to the group in > question. > > Sadly, to date I have not seen any organized efforts to bring to > VMware's attention the mob of BSD users that are out there, despite > all the boastful talks. You also see that there are no (host) support > for Open and Net (BSD). > > OSS virtualization efforts are another story, as there is no "bottom > line" as such. But you still need the manpower and manhours to do > complicated stuff like virtualization. > > SC > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- http://alexus.org/
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