From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 18:15:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EB416A403 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from mail13.simplicato.com (mail13.simplicato.com [207.99.47.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D74013C4B0 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from mail13.simplicato.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail13.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649E477AEC4; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uws1.starlofashions.com (unknown [12.44.50.124]) by mail13.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F05077AEC3; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by uws1.starlofashions.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:15:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:15:57 -0400 From: Scott Robbins To: "rsync.net" Message-ID: <20070425181557.GD45941@uws1.starlofashions.com> Mail-Followup-To: "rsync.net" , Matt Piechota , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <20070424203552.S92308@mail.rsync.net> <20070425081626.Y39661@acropolis.argolis.org> <20070425063402.X92308@mail.rsync.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070425063402.X92308@mail.rsync.net> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Matt Piechota Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD: Bounty sponsored and formalized by rsync.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:15:59 -0000 On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:38:33AM -0700, rsync.net wrote: > > Matt, > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Matt Piechota wrote: > > > > rsync.net is pleased to announce Code Bounties for 2007: > > > > > > http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html > > > > > > Two of the five bounties are for FreeBSD related projects. Please take > > > note of the "Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD" bounty - we encourage you to > > > contribute. > > > > I'm curious: assuming 'VMware 5.5' refers to VMware Workstation 5.5, why > > did you choose that over VMware Server 1.0.2, the no-cost product? I > > don't believe VMware Workstation has any features over VMware Server, and > > VMware Convertor can copy VMs between versions (if there is a > > even a difference in format at all) if you needed to move machines from > > previous setups. This question came up on emulation, where someone was willing to offer a bounty and a few more of us liked the idea. Like Matt, I said that I would prefer vmware-server as it's free. However, the gentleman who originally posted the bounty agreed with the comments that I ruthlessly snipped, that there are apparently several advantages to workstation. (For myself, like Matt, vmware-server would be more than adequate--my only hope would be that perhaps, if you folks were able to port workstation you could throw server in--maybe it's only a bit more effort.) -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6