vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

Rico Secada coolzone at io.dk
Thu Jul 20 13:39:43 UTC 2006


On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:39:28 +0000 (WET)
Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com> wrote:

> 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!

That is not correct!

We use VMWare3 from ports on a FreeBSD machine at our datacenter and it's running Windows XP perfectly. VMWare3 from ports supports FreeBSD as a host perfectly.

Best and kind regards 
Rico


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