Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:38:57 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: confused about VMware on FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20061026013857.GA71415@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <17728.2504.311485.939027@roam.psg.com> References: <20061025172246.GL5296@dell> <200610251330.59360.lists@jnielsen.net> <17728.2504.311485.939027@roam.psg.com>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:05:12PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > > 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. Or use qemu with qemu-kmod under freebsd as a host, and don't give up the things you like! I've had better luck with qemu anyway, and often it outperforms vmware under certain conditions. -- Rick C. Petty
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