anyone using vmware to run freebsd

lists lists at dlfws.net
Wed Apr 21 17:59:49 PDT 2004


lists wrote:

> David Bear wrote:
>
>> i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using
>> vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other
>> os to host vmware and then launch freebsd?
>>
>>
>> separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe
>> there any self contained freebsd cd's.  Something like knoppix which
>> launches and loads a complete working freebsd from cdrom?
>>
>>  
>>
> Hiya David,
>
> I ran VMWare 2 from Win2000 w/ FreeBSD 4.2 (yeah, this was a while 
> ago). The only problem I ran into was the editor I was using was not 
> releasing the perl scripts for 10 to 15 seconds after saving .. it had 
> a known bug :(.
>
> I'm pretty sure I had apache, mod_perl, mysql and various other things 
> running.
>
> Thanatos
>
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I guess I should have specified that I was running the editor 
fromWindows and mounting FreeBSD using Samba.

Thanatos



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