From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 13:59:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502BD16A4DA for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:59:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay00.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.5.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF5D743D49 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:59:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 8618 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2006 13:59:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 15 Aug 2006 13:59:40 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <44E1D34D.5000001@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:59:41 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions References: <20060815065823.98826.qmail@web60119.mail.yahoo.com> <20060815232332.40c875b3@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060815232332.40c875b3@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:59:42 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) > Peter wrote: > >> Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking >> for comments from people who may have done this. > > I may be completelly off the mark here...but I think the VMWare Server is more > like XEN rather than Qemu ( which is more VMWare workstation). > > AFAIK, VMWare does not support FreeBSD as a host (YES as a guest) in their > latest versions of the Workstation line. I havent heard of host as for the > Server line, but I could be wrong. > > Have you looked into Xen instead? > > Beto well I'm trying vmware3 at the moment using 6.1 as host; the port seems to build fine, and the wizard now runs to build a setup. I need to get a key in order to actually run a machine, but I think overall it will eventually run XP. Had to change my linux compatibility etc etc. The difficulty with Xen at present is that it won't run XP/Win2k etc etc which vmware will. Xen will eventually get there now that they've got agreements with M$. The real problem with these emulations is how far they are from the real hardware. USB is still "new" so I don't expect to get my usb dvbt working even if a virtual XP runs fine. I know the qemu can do some kind of device control under linux, but I suspect it's harder under freeBSD. -- Robin Becker