From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 4 8:14:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4AF14BFD for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA73732; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:15:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990303215810.007c73d0@istar.ca> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:14:25 -0500 To: Dru , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: freebsd supported - VM Ware Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:58 PM -0500 3/3/99, Dru wrote: > Has anyone seen this yet? > > http://www.windowstechedge.com/wte-1999-03/wte-03-vmware.html?0301 > > Interesting concept. Even more interesting that FreeBSD is one > of the supported operating systems. Think of the ramifications: > users can compare FreeBSD to 7 other operating systems and decide > for themselves. I have noticed a few articles on this. It is quite interesting to me, too. One thing to note is that it supports FreeBSD as a guest operating system, but not as a host operating system. Initially it will run on linux as a host operating system, and a little later they hope to have it run on WinNT as a host operating system. For my own purposes, it would be much nicer to have freebsd or openbsd supported as a host operating system. I could setup a machine with linux and run vmware under that, but I know a lot more about administering FreeBSD than linux, and would rather have my main system be FreeBSD (OpenBSD would be fine with me too, since I like the emphasis on security that's in OpenBSD). I sent them a polite request to them, noting that I will probably buy a copy to run on linux, but I would feel a lot more comfortable if there were a freebsd version available. They said they are considering additional host platforms, and that they would save my request Perhaps it would be good (well, for me...) if a few other *BSD'ers might look at the product, too. If it is something that you really would buy, then send them along a similar request. See also http://www.vmware.com Please keep any messages to ADVOCATING freebsd, and not insulting them for writing a program for linux. The fact that they are testing (and mentioning) FreeBSD as a guest operating system shows that they already know FreeBSD is worth some attention. We just have to show that it's also a worthwhile investment for them to support it as a host operating system. If this program works as advertised, it could be a very useful program for someone like me. It looks like it could be great for debugging cross-platform issues of a given program, for instance. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message