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Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd?
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> - VM Server isn't supported either. I am not so sure it would be as simple 
> as
> mapping the linux commands  to bsd ones... the fact that it needs the 
> *mod
> linux commands implies they use linux kernel modules... which I would say 
> are
> not compatible with BSD. I'd love to be proven wrong :)

100%  - and it even has its own proprietary Linux modules that the VMServer 
loads when starting up (virtual nics, hubs / switches, etc).  I just thought 
that linux modules would be able to operate under linux-emu in BSD.  Guess I 
was wrong on that one :-)

But yeah, VMWare Workstation is not really something I'd use in production. 
VMWare Server only Linux / Windows / etc, and then we have the enterprise 
class ESX Server, which is a OS in itself....