Easiest desktop BSD distro

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Thu Mar 31 17:10:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote:
> > On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote:
> >> There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a
> >> FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox.
> >
> > Nitpick: the web site says
> >
> >  > VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware
> >
> 
> Following myself up, Polytropon was technically correct as the FAQ says
> 
>  > VirtualBSD is somewhat compatible with VirtualBox, but not right away
>  > and not easily.
> 
> but I suspect the level of effort needed is going to put people off 
> trying it. Isn't VMware more common than VBox on most systems anyway?

Thanks for stating that; in fact, I was confusing VMWare
and VirtualBox while typing. :-)


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