FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Mark Saad]

> On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014, at 13:38, Marko Cupać wrote:
>> First of all, I wouldn't go with 10-RELEASE, as it is not officially
>> supported. Go for 9.2-RELEASE amd64 or expect all kinds of problems.
> 
> "FreeBSD" is "not officially supported" by VMWare. Trust me. We threw
> $60,000 at them and they still wouldn't acknowledge bugs. I couldn't
> even find an engineer that knew what FreeBSD was!
> 

So you need to remind the engineers at VMware their parent company EMC uses and sells things based on FreeBSD. Mainly Isilon and spectra logic as well as other things . 


> Plus you have to consider that we don't even know what version of ESXi
> he's working with in the first place. According to their OS support
> matrix, FreeBSD 9.2 is only "supported" on ESXi 5.5.
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software&partner=109&testConfigurations=16&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc&testConfig=16
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If we , all of the VMware users who use FreeBSD on esxi , work out a good set I notes for using VMware esxi  + FreeBSD and work up a good page on wiki.freebsd.org; we can make some of the users have a better  experience and we can help EMC / VMware with support as a Side effect . 

Anyone interested in helping ? 

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Mark Saad