vmware alternative for freebsd?

[Loren M. Lang]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Grant wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Didier Wiroth
> > Sent: 19 April 2005 14:35
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: vmware alternative for freebsd?
> 
> 
> > the ports tree. I was wondering if there are any alternatives to vmware,
> > commercial or freeware. I'm talking about a host version (I'm not talking
> > about guest OSes).
> 
> Hey,
> 
> There is a few out there for fbsd.. but the only one I have used with
> success is qemu.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/qemu/pkg-descr
> 
> Its quite quick, but I feel it isn't as quick as vmware is/was.
> 
> But it is something to look at, if its just simple things you need from it
> it will be fine, but anything CPU heavy I find its not great on.
> 
> Another one that you might want to look at is bochs
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/bochs/pkg-descr

There is also wine, depending on what exactly you need.  Dosbox is nice
if all you need to do runs in dos.

> 
> I cant really say much about this one, I've tried it before but never got
> anywhere, so it might be good for what you need. Or it might be rubbish :)
> 
> Anyways gotta do some work :)
> Bye. 
> Grant.
> 
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