Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:34:52 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How? Message-ID: <1392392092.3444.83451713.6EEBCBB9@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <5dcefb214b0503028606f53da194f4c1@dweimer.net> References: <CAF-3MvPCUDjv4tGeFBf1DkRC6gr2QGsMUT_uH6Q0UU9mo9tv_g@mail.gmail.com> <0ac901cf2437$458837b0$d098a710$@FreeBSD.org> <773DBB2B-D421-44DB-848F-E4B7A9238085@gmail.com> <20140208203859.b6a9c4f555b7e8301541e676@mimar.rs> <1392385745.4914.83410473.135CDC76@webmail.messagingengine.com> <28B68434-113E-4ABA-931E-3DAB666A2BA5@longcount.org> <5dcefb214b0503028606f53da194f4c1@dweimer.net>
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2014, at 9:13, dweimer wrote: > On 02/14/2014 8:43 am, Mark Saad wrote: > >> On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014, at 13:38, Marko Cupa=C4=87 wrote: > >>> First of all, I wouldn't go with 10-RELEASE, as it is not officially > >>> supported. Go for 9.2-RELEASE amd64 or expect all kinds of problems. > >>=20 > >> "FreeBSD" is "not officially supported" by VMWare. Trust me. We threw > >> $60,000 at them and they still wouldn't acknowledge bugs. I couldn't > >> even find an engineer that knew what FreeBSD was! > >>=20 > >=20 > > So you need to remind the engineers at VMware their parent company EMC > > uses and sells things based on FreeBSD. Mainly Isilon and spectra > > logic as well as other things . > >=20 > >=20 > >> Plus you have to consider that we don't even know what version of ESXi > >> he's working with in the first place. According to their OS support > >> matrix, FreeBSD 9.2 is only "supported" on ESXi 5.5. > >>=20 > >> http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategor= y=3Dsoftware&partner=3D109&testConfigurations=3D16&page=3D1&display_interva= l=3D10&sortColumn=3DPartner&sortOrder=3DAsc&testConfig=3D16 > >> ______________________________________________ > >=20 > > If we , all of the VMware users who use FreeBSD on esxi , work out a > > good set I notes for using VMware esxi + FreeBSD and work up a good > > page on wiki.freebsd.org; we can make some of the users have a better > > experience and we can help EMC / VMware with support as a Side effect > > . > >=20 > > Anyone interested in helping ? > >=20 > > --/ > > Mark Saad > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > I would be interested, I have been running various version of FreeBSD on= =20 > various ESX and VMWare for some time. I have found few little gotchas,=20 > but for the most part it has been running great. Including FreeBSD 10,=20 > on the latest version of VMware Workstation, ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.1. I=20 > don't however use the VMware Tools install from within VMware, and=20 > instead use the emulators/open-vm-tools port. >=20 I will gladly offer any relevant notes I may have from our internal wiki if someone starts some documentation.
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