Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:26:37 -0800 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare Message-ID: <57d710000411241726b3534ee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041125011711.GA1907@thened.net> References: <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer> <20041125011711.GA1907@thened.net>
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> Good luck getting it to run FreeBSD in the first place. If you search > Google, you'll find one informative thread on the community forums > that will help you getting 4.x to run, but I've yet to manage to > convince the 5.x installer that I do indeed have a hard disk. > > FreeBSD is also not officially supported, as far as I can tell. They > claim that 4.5 is a 'qualified guest operating system', but there's no > option to create a FreeBSD virtual machine - you must create another > operating system and manually edit the .vmx configuration file to > tell it that it's FreeBSD. > i've had no problems running multiple copies of FreeBSD (4.x and 5.x) as well as openBSD as a vmware guest. as far as using FreeBSD as the host OS, I have not tried it but it does not look like it would work easily (or atleast w/o using /compat/linux). In fact I will generally run a upcoming release as a VMware guest before roling it out to my machines to test basic functionality, scripts etc... > Usermode Linux achieves most of what ESX does. I don't know of > anything for a BSD. > > > I assume you can get some of the functionality from jail (8, 2). -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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