From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 20:12:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3C8106566B; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scheidell@freebsd.org) Received: from mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net [216.134.223.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29678FC12; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (unknown [10.71.0.54]) by mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5070BD23C2E; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:49 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: SpammerTrap(r) VPS-1500 2.17 at mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net Received: from USBCTDC001.secnap.com (unknown [10.70.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96BC6D23C2B; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from MikeBook-Air.local (10.80.0.4) by USBCTDC001.secnap.com (10.70.1.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.722.0; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:47 -0500 Message-ID: <4F1B1C45.60902@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 From: Michael Scheidell Organization: SECNAP Network Security Corp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:12:50 -0000 I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers). He asked "how many"? Well, I sure can't go back to him and tell him that there was only one company who contacted me back who said that they used VMware in production systems, with FreeBSD guest os. If there isn't anyone else with VMware problems, and I really want to be clear: VMware is a 'for profit' company, so, small numbers won't impress them, but if there are any companies (aside from the one that contacted me.. you don't have to again, I have your email). If no one else, I'll call him back on the phone and apologize for bothering him. I was really hoping to get some of the virtual nic issues, and hgfs issues worked out, but, I guess there isn't enough commercial interest. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO o: 561-999-5000 d: 561-948-2259 >*| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Best Mobile Solutions Product of 2011 * Best Intrusion Prevention Product * Hot Company Finalist 2011 * Best Email Security Product * Certified SNORT Integrator