Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x

[Eric Anderson]

On 04/10/07 14:39, John Kozubik wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>> VirtualBox looks VERY nice..  I've seen a thread about a month ago from
>> someone trying to get it to compile on FreeBSD.  After hacking the
>> configure file a bit, I've gotten closer, but some of the kmk stuff is
>> linked to libc.so.6, which isn't so good for me running -CURRENT.
>> Honestly, I think porting vmware is now less interesting knowing that
>> virtualbox is so competitive, and more easily portable.
> 
> 
> All very interesting, of course, but the bottom line is that vmware is
> becoming (or has become) the de facto standard[1] for virtualization and
> testing across all user platforms (windows, linux, and soon OSX).
> 
> The upcoming 3d hardware virtualization as well as the prevalance of
> vmware images as a means of testing and distribution makes it such that I
> cannot use FreeBSD as my base desktop operating system anymore unless it
> can support a modern version of Vmware.
> 
> Which is the impetus for the bounty ...
> 
> 
> 
> [1] leaving out things like jail, zones, etc.


Did you get any takers on this?


Eric