From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 19:54:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590551065674 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05D08FC0A for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id VAA23691; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:54:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Rp3UG-000Meu-Hn; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:54:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4F1C6954.8010908@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:53:56 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Andree References: <4F1B1C45.60902@freebsd.org> <20120121161024.444a11c2@scorpio> <201201220815.36115.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <4F1C1957.6040401@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4F1C1957.6040401@gmx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Erich Dollansky , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:54:05 -0000 on 22/01/2012 16:12 Matthias Andree said the following: > Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: >> Hi, >> >> I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. >> >> On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: >>> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 >>> Michael Scheidell articulated: >>> >>>> 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"? >>> >> I do not know anybody who runs FreeBSD in a VM. All run it native on their machines. > > I dual-boot FreeBSD, either bare-bones, or into a virtual machine - BUT > that is VirtualBox with the PUEL'ed extension pack, on a 64-bit Linux > amd64 host. > > And I don't care about VMWare at all since they took VMWare server 1.x > off the market. > I've seen their pricing policies since the early days of VMWare > Workstation 1.X many a year ago, and it's ridiculous (meaning way > overpriced), and there are more reasons... I appreciate your and Erich's urge to speak out in this thread, but the thread-starter asked about something different. -- Andriy Gapon