Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:01:20 +0000 From: Rick N <solarux@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Talking of FreeBSD bounties, VMWare 6.x? Message-ID: <BAY113-W3061526A97CB206EC52DF8A1960@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20090319142509.35e85d80@asus> References: <20090319142509.35e85d80@asus>
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Hi John, I understand Vmware is commercial, but what about Sun's/OpenSolaris's xVM, (VirtualBox) its free. I haven't played with it in awhile but FreeBSD could be run as a Guest OS. Maybe the newer version can support FreeBSD hosting. Needless, its popular within alot of linux users, ... http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/index.jsp cheers, Rick. > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:25:09 +0000 > From: fbsd32@freeode.co.uk > To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Talking of FreeBSD bounties, VMWare 6.x? > > Good afternoon, > > I'm not at all up to date with FreeBSD, but I remember being quite > excited by the possibility of 'Vmware 6.x on FreeBSD', A $3,500 > rsync.net bounty claimed by Orlando Bassotto in 2007. > > http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html > > I checked Mr Bassotto's web site shortly after reading the news > and at increasing intervals over the months thereafter, but "a few > weeks" is turning into a few years: > > http://www.break.net/orlando/ > > I wonder if anyone here knows of any progress? FreeBSD seems > sadly lacking in the Virtualizer host department, while, IMHO > it would make the perfect host: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host.html > > -- > Thanks, John. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ Reunite with the people closest to you, chat face to face with Messenger. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9650736
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