vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

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I had success using VMWare 3 on a FreeBSD to run windows Xp inside it.

And let's not forget our other options, like qemu and boch...
(when it fits, of course ;-)

Regards...

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Rafael Mentz Aquino
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com>
To: Rico Secada <coolzone at io.dk>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:13:05 +0000 (WET)
Subject: Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

> 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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