On 2012-01-22 15:12, Matthias Andree wrote: > 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...
Private and enterprise are two different things (also in prising) If our devs need a machine for testing or a project I can deploy a new machine in short time at one of our data-centers which is not doable with bare metal. For private you can use the free ESXi and small corporates can use the foundation version ( less then 1000,- for three servers including VCenter ). Most companies I know run everything virtual, one of the big plus is having all servers the same (virtual) HW platform, load balancing, failover .... _______________________________________________ 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"