VMware host on stable?

[Seán C. Farley]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:15:55 -0700
> Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
>
>> Michael Butler wrote:
>>> What is the most recent version of VMware known to work on 6.x in
>>> host mode so as to be able to run windoze as a guest?
>>>
>>> Anyone tried 5.5 on 6.x yet? .. or the time-limited beta (expires
>>> ~July) of VMware server (free! at
>>> http://www.vmware.com/products/server)?
>>
>> I have the same question.  I've been looking at porting the 5.5 vmmon
>> module, but haven't had time yet to start.  All I really need is the
>> ability to run an existing vmware image.  And no, qemu and xen and
>> all that is not an option.
>
> You're entitled to your POV, of course. But I dare say that *on
> FreeBSD* Qemu (w/ kqemu) is far better than any build of vmware I've
> ever seen.  Any reason why qemu is "not an option"?

Referring to VMWare 5, QEMU+KQEMU is much slower than VMWare until the
-kernel-kqemu option[1] is complete.  This is ignoring VMWare 5's very
quick snapshot functionality.  I use dd to "snapshot" QEMU images.

I keep hoping Parallels[2] will release a FreeBSD host for their
workstation product, which is only $50.

Seán
   1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-02/msg00110.html
   2. http://www.parallels.com/
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