From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 20:10:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-c.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.183.3.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E2437B4D7 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53519 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Nov 2000 04:10:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Nov 2000 04:10:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:10:11 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Mike Smith Cc: Sergey Babkin , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows In-Reply-To: <200011280356.eAS3ulF23058@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their > product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the > userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. > > The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be > comparable to the work involved in the VMware port (ie. reasonable but > not excessive). Do you have any idea how easy it would be to get plex86 to run on FreeBSD? From what I saw on slashdot the other day, they now have Windows running under it. If so, a port would make lin4win vs vmware a moot discussion. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message