From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 21:31:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3078D106564A for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:31:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gautham@lisphacker.org) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68F48FC1B for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:31:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so2410685wyb.13 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:31:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.0.206 with SMTP id 56mr3337098web.33.1284671365008; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.158.146 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:09:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:09:24 +0100 Message-ID: From: Gautham Ganapathy To: Sergio Tam Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host 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: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:31:52 -0000 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Sergio Tam wrote: > 2010/8/23 Matthias Apitz : >> >> Hello, > > Hi Matthias >> >> Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance? > > VMware > > or Virtual PC > > http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx > > Hi The free VMware server (if still available) was generally much faster than Virtual PC, but that was sometime back (Solaris SXDE wouldn't even install under Virtual PC, but worked great with VMware). Something to do with only user-mode virtualization? Not sure if this is still true Gautham