[FreeBSD-Announce] Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD: Bounty sponsored and formalized by rsync.net

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:38:33AM -0700, rsync.net wrote:
> 
> Matt,
> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Matt Piechota wrote:
> 
> > > rsync.net is pleased to announce Code Bounties for 2007:
> > >
> > > http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html
> > >
> > > Two of the five bounties are for FreeBSD related projects.  Please take
> > > note of the "Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD" bounty - we encourage you to
> > > contribute.
> >
> > I'm curious: assuming 'VMware 5.5' refers to VMware Workstation 5.5, why
> > did you choose that over VMware Server 1.0.2, the no-cost product?  I
> > don't believe VMware Workstation has any features over VMware Server, and
> > VMware Convertor can copy VMs between versions (if there is a
> > even a difference in format at all) if you needed to move machines from
> > previous setups.


This question came up on emulation, where someone was willing to offer a
bounty and a few more of us liked the idea.  Like Matt, I said that I
would prefer vmware-server as it's free.  However, the gentleman who
originally posted the bounty agreed with the comments that I ruthlessly
snipped, that there are apparently several advantages to workstation.
(For myself, like Matt, vmware-server would be more than adequate--my
only hope would be that perhaps, if you folks were able to port
workstation you could throw server in--maybe it's only a bit more
effort.)



-- 
Scott Robbins
GPG KeyID EB3467D6
( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2  A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6