Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: > Hi, > > I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. > > On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 >> Michael Scheidell articulated: >> >>> I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him >>> there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more >>> that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix >>> some device drivers). >>> >>> He asked "how many"? >> > I do not know anybody who runs FreeBSD in a VM. All run it native on their > machines.
I dual-boot FreeBSD, either bare-bones, or into a virtual machine - BUT that is VirtualBox with the PUEL'ed extension pack, on a 64-bit Linux amd64 host. And I don't care about VMWare at all since they took VMWare server 1.x off the market. I've seen their pricing policies since the early days of VMWare Workstation 1.X many a year ago, and it's ridiculous (meaning way overpriced), and there are more reasons... _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"