From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 8: 5: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [208.184.13.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDE037B71C for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [208.184.13.196]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B562E440; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:04:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2SG4vV24580; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:04:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kciLink.com using -f To: Gregory Bond Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware Express References: <200103280724.RAA03574@lightning.itga.com.au> From: Vivek Khera Date: 28 Mar 2001 11:04:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200103280724.RAA03574@lightning.itga.com.au> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "GB" == Gregory Bond writes: GB> I've got vmware2 running ok from the ports system under an eval GB> licence. It's way kool. GB> But $USD299 is pretty steep when converted into local currency. GB> The VMware Express version at $USD79 is much more palatable, and GB> will (afaict) do all I need to do. Will the Express version work From the looks of it, Express is just a feature-trimmed version of the full product. The features they removed don't seem to be related to the kernel modules, so I'd be that they would work. It might be worth a query over at ports@freebsd.org. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message