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

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:41:18AM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:
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> >
> > Did you get any takers on this?
> >
> 
> 
> No.  Other than the two or three people (including yourself, IIRC) that
> offered to perhaps kick in a few bucks, I have not had any response to
> this.
> 

I wonder if, as Eric (I believe) suggested, we would have better luck
with VirtualBox.  Disclaimer--I've only used qemu on FreeBSD, not Linux,
so for all I know, VB's performance on Linux is no better than qemu's.
However, I have to say that I found VirtualBox's performance on Linux to
be equal to or better than (subjective impression, no benchmarks, and as
I've said, I don't have heavy needs for an MS installation) vmware. 

My only problems with VirtualBox were in getting it to use bridged
networking with a wireless connection. I had no problem when it was
connected by cabled ethernet, but judging from a bit of googling, I'm
not the only one who couldn't get it working with wireless. 

Disclaimer number 2--I'm not at all experienced with bridging in Linux,
it seems to be a bit different than what I do with FreeBSD, and it could
easily be a PEBCAK problem. 


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