best way to run vista inside freebsd

Predrag Punosevac punosevac at math.arizona.edu
Thu Oct 18 22:27:56 PDT 2007


Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Frank Jahnke wrote:
>>> I have heard that Win4BSD is really good.
>>>     
>>
>> Your hearing is not good.  Win4BSD is a terrible product when compared
>> with the very old version of VMware.  Its only advantage is that you can
>> run it with more than one CPU (namely, APIC is enabled).  Win4BSD is
>> less stable, less responsive, and it appears to be dead as far as
>> activity goes.  FWIW, in my opinion qemu/kqemu is not particularly good,
>> either.
>>
>> VMs in general are a problem on Free.  There is an effort to port the
>> most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man.  I do hope this
>> works, because right now things in the VM world on FreeBSD truly are
>> bleak.
>>
>> Frank
>>   
> I said in the disclaimer that I personally do not run any Windows 
> natively or via WMware.
> I was also wrong about the price. It looks it is $29.99 
> http://www.win4bsd.com/content/
> Sorry for spam, this is the end of my participation on this thread.
>
>



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