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Subject: Re: confused about VMware on FreeBSD...
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> In order of preference: either use VMware Server on a Linux host, use a 
> different virtualization/emulation product (such as qemu) on FreeBSD, or 
> track down (I don't know if you can still buy them) a license for the Linux 
> version VMware Workstation 3 and give it a go, using an older branch of 
> FreeBSD if necessary.

or give up, run winxp on top, vmware 5, and freebsd as a guest.
spawn xterms and emacs via cygwin.

not what i would prefer.  but it seems one can not get what i
prefer.  so i settle.  and it works.

randy