installing freebsd on windows

Jerry gesbbb at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 25 04:02:34 PDT 2009


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400
Harold Hartley <wheelie207 at gwi.net> wrote:

>I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd
>to install on windows like ubuntu does.
>
>I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I
>live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer
>to choose what I want to boot into, such as windows or unbuntu and
>maybe a freebsd choice.
>
>I don't always want to boot into windows, except for the 3 apps I have 
>to use windows for.
>
>I do boot into ubuntu 90% of the time and enjoy it so much, but I have 
>read about freebsd and researched it fully and I wish I could be able
>to 
>  run freebsd as with all the apps freebsd has to offer. I would love
> to 
>be able to install freebsd under windows so I could choose freebsd to 
>boot into when I want.
>
>I hope to hear from freebsd about my request, and by the way, I'm not
>a linux expert so I don't know everything about linux, but I'm always 
>learning.

If you are interested in using a virtual machine, these two URLs might
prove useful.

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx?WT.mc_id=13E48F94-882A-43DB-9ED5-BBC184D75FC7&WT.srch=1&mode=1&CR_ID=-1&CR_TC=9OSUHTJXBB2LNZC

http://vpc.visualwin.com/index.aspx

FreeBSD is fully supported according to the documentation.

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

	R. S. Barton
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