From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 07:26:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C721916A420 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:26:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1072843D48 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:26:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i8so61579rne for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:26:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bY8qX0+50r/jFBySNaqZ01cM9QFr7UjQXYVQaUyLKtgPUOi9iF4E9YyDNiRS19GkdPec+IkcX0pX+fjHGDr792M07O5bJfp6no+P70UkdHnMA9aDQmc/Q43L/l6wFCiqLrCjNXjG4J9zJnaqRdtMPI26mKp0sEomTuuF6wJJqBE= Received: by 10.38.79.78 with SMTP id c78mr142912rnb; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.101.21 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:26:56 -0500 From: Eric Kjeldergaard To: Stefan Farrenkopf In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kjelderg@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:26:57 -0000 On 9/14/05, Stefan Farrenkopf wrote: > Hello, >=20 > will there be a vmware port with version 4 or 5 some day or is there=20 > another possibility to run these versions with with FreeBSD 5.4? =20 I thought (though could be wrong) that there was work that had gotten 4 close to working, but it seems unlikely (imho) that either will be up-and-running soon. Is there some feature missing from vmware3 that you need? > I have found some discussion about qemu, but I did not really understand = if >=20 > this helps to use the more recent vmware versions or if it just replaces= =20 > vmware. Can anyone point me to a good starting point for reading about th= is >=20 > technology? qemu.org is the home-page. It can work like vmware though by default does much more (processor emulation!!!) > I tested CrossOver Office on my linux box and it's far away from being a= =20 > replacement for the vmware solution. >=20 > In my opinion the newer versions should be availalbe, because it's hard t= o=20 > swith to FreeBSD, if you do not own an old vmware license. That's probably something to talk to the vmware people about. Freebsd could always use a little more attention from software vendors. --=20 If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.