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On Sun, January 7, 2007 7:46 am, Bill Moran wrote:
> "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote:
>> does FreeBSD provide the ability to run VMWARE-Player for Linux and
>>  run VMs in it?
>
> No.  To the best of my knowledge it's not possible to run any VMWare
> product under FreeBSD.

VMWare 3 is in the ports tree.  That is the latest version of VMWare
that works on FreeBSD, and a lot of people are having problems running
that on -CURRENT.  Runs fine on 6.x though.

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