Virtualization

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 31 13:40:42 PDT 2007


On 31/10/2007, Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik at erikosterholm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:57:20PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > There's a donation box on
> > http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html for developers to get
> > VMWare Workstation working on FreeBSD but the status of the project is
> > unknown. There's also some indication someone is working on VirtualBox
> > but that's probably in very early stages (and besides that, VirtualBox
> > doesn't work reliably).
>
> I have to disagree with the last VirtualBox comment.  It seems to work
> quite well for the operating systems it supports (mostly Linux and
> Windows as guests.)  Sadly, FreeBSD as a guest just doesn't seem to
> fly.

True, interpretation of my comment should be constrained by the fact
that I was implicitly thinking of FreeBSD as a guest.


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