From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 01:26:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3ED16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:26:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4653D43D41 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:26:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so138677rnf for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:26:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=UUlcfkU38fMN03qpi65MexmMXCqxknrSFA3O3DFhyxixjfn/m0R1CA7YuGkRfOm9tD38LLMpnJipNAP7DPP4TM3Qfzgf+6dpEjTp+NOzS8W7RjXx3PvC4vGS4yGFOXjqNgdo2oB4iU9Okaf91BZiDsVQyU/jRXhKaUzm0NedGFY= Received: by 10.38.15.61 with SMTP id 61mr599644rno; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.14.26 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:26:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d710000411241726b3534ee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:26:37 -0800 From: pete wright To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20041125011711.GA1907@thened.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer> <20041125011711.GA1907@thened.net> Subject: Re: VMWare X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: pete wright List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:26:40 -0000 > 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