From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 19:39:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7911D16A402; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:39:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (kozubik.com [69.43.165.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9DC13C455; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:39:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l3AJdVoZ084361; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id l3AJdU6L084358; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:39:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> References: <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:39:34 -0000 On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote: > VirtualBox looks VERY nice.. I've seen a thread about a month ago from > someone trying to get it to compile on FreeBSD. After hacking the > configure file a bit, I've gotten closer, but some of the kmk stuff is > linked to libc.so.6, which isn't so good for me running -CURRENT. > Honestly, I think porting vmware is now less interesting knowing that > virtualbox is so competitive, and more easily portable. All very interesting, of course, but the bottom line is that vmware is becoming (or has become) the de facto standard[1] for virtualization and testing across all user platforms (windows, linux, and soon OSX). The upcoming 3d hardware virtualization as well as the prevalance of vmware images as a means of testing and distribution makes it such that I cannot use FreeBSD as my base desktop operating system anymore unless it can support a modern version of Vmware. Which is the impetus for the bounty ... [1] leaving out things like jail, zones, etc.