Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:49:29 +0000 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Cc: punosevac@math.arizona.edu, questions@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Subject: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd Message-ID: <47188BB9.7080707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> References: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net>
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Frank Staals wrote: > Frank Jahnke wrote: >> VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the >> most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. I do hope this >> works, because right now things in the VM world on FreeBSD truly are >> bleak. >> >> Frank >> >> > What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I did some research > on it some time ago but the best I could find was that there was > someone porting vmware-workstation 4.5.X to FreeBSD allthough there > were quite a lot problems so there wasn't much progress it seemed. > > Anyway; VM's and FreeBSD don't go well indeed :( vmware3 is just > outdated, it won't work as Xen host (yet; .. it was on the SoC list, > but I'm not sure how much has become of it ) and qemu is a nice > attempt but it's just not good enough ( especially since kqemu locks > up my system in CURRENT ). It would be great if FreeBSD could be a > VM-host. > Sort of off topic but an other thing (besides run vista) I eventually want to do is use it as a OS developement platform (writing an OS from the ground up)
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