vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

[Duane Hill]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, cknipe at savage.za.org wrote:

> As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a Host
> OS.  i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD
> inside VMWare..

That would be correct. I own a copy of VMWare for Windows and use it 
extensively to test out different scenarios with FreeBSD before touching 
our production server. Works like a charm!

> Quoting Erin Sharmahd <tuxgirl at gmail.com>:
>
>> I'm trying to find some info on google on using vmware server or
>> vmplayer on freebsd.  In essence, one of my classes is expecting us to
>> do some windows work, and i'd like to do it in vmware or something
>> similar so that I don't have to actually install windows....
>>
>> Is it even possible currently to use the most recent version of vmware
>> or vmplayer on freebsd?  I saw a port for vmware3, but in talking to a
>> friend, he said that's really old...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ~Erin
>>
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