vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

[Duane Hill]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Rico Secada wrote:

> 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.

Yes. That is true. However, to take advantage of the new features that are 
provided in the latest v5.5, there isn't a way. Not only do they have that 
documented on their site, I've also spoken with someone prior to me 
purchasing the product.

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