From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 17 14:35:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28DB4157A6 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 78318 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 1999 21:40:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:40:03 +0200 From: Andreas Braukmann To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jason Thorpe Subject: Re: VMware--anyone playing with it? Message-ID: <19990517234002.B64900@paert.tse-online.de> References: <199905171519.IAA08691@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199905171519.IAA08691@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>; from Jason Thorpe on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:19:25AM -0700 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jason, On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:19:25AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 1999 01:11:40 -0500 > > It doesn't run on FreeBSD, only on Linux and Windows NT. Pity, because > > it is very neat. > I think the Connectix Virtual PC is cooler; VMware only runs on Linux > and NT because it requires gross hacks to redirect e.g. I/O space access. ... and the Connectix Virtual PC is available for FreeBSD? > Really, a full emulator is more interesting than a virtual machine. that's for sure, ... from a theoretically point of view at least. But I suppose, that the virtual machine approach would lead to more performant designs? -Andreas -- : TSE TeleService GmbH : Gsf: Arne Reuter : : : Hovestrasse 14 : Andreas Braukmann : We do it with : : D-48351 Everswinkel : HRB: 1430, AG WAF : FreeBSD/SMP : :--------------------------------------------------------------------: : Anti-Spam Petition: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ : : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message