vmware 5
Eric Kjeldergaard
kjelderg at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 00:26:57 PDT 2005
On 9/14/05, Stefan Farrenkopf <sfarren at gwdg.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> will there be a vmware port with version 4 or 5 some day or is there
> another possibility to run these versions with with FreeBSD 5.4?
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
>
> this helps to use the more recent vmware versions or if it just replaces
> vmware. Can anyone point me to a good starting point for reading about this
>
> 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
> replacement for the vmware solution.
>
> In my opinion the newer versions should be availalbe, because it's hard to
> 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.
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