From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 20:59:58 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 D4987106564A for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vinny@abellohome.net) Received: from mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9D68FC08 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.abellohome.net (ool-44c58eab.dyn.optonline.net [68.197.142.171]) by mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LY7001P3VLWG850@mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:29:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from [172.20.100.144] (Vinny-PC.abellohome.net [172.20.100.144]) by mail.abellohome.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5259E84433; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:29:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:29:56 -0500 From: Vinny Abello In-reply-to: <4F1C1957.6040401@gmx.de> To: Matthias Andree Message-id: <4F1C71C4.5050808@abellohome.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 References: <4F1B1C45.60902@freebsd.org> <20120121161024.444a11c2@scorpio> <201201220815.36115.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <4F1C1957.6040401@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:24:05 +0000 Cc: 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 20:59:58 -0000 On 1/22/2012 9:12 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: > 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... FWIW, I have around a dozen FreeBSD machines in production under VMWare ESXi for network telemetry and caching name servers. -Vinny