Also there are some more open source virtualization projects like Qemu http://bellard.org/qemu/ Bochs http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ which are used for virtual machine versions of Reactos... Can they also be good alternatives for Vmware? Regards AAP
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:26 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 29, 12:31 pm, bnewbold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I got pretty frustrated setting up vmware (workstation, have a license > > through school) under Ubuntu linux for the purpose of building a > > FreeBSD development image; lots of license issues, networking was a > > pain to configure, and eventually I gave up after spending too many > > weekend hours on it. > > > > I'd be interested in trying VirtualBox OSE though, would that be an > > acceptable alternative for development images? My tolerance for pain > > is much higher for open source applications. > > > > FWIW, i'd still be happy to configure a FreeBSD development > > environment if somebody else gets it set up somewhere I can log in to. > > I'd also be willing to give one or two trusted developers logins to my > > snappy well connected freebsd 6.3 box for development. The MIT student > > information processing board is also working on providing large > > numbers of virtual machines to students for any purpose, once that > > project stabilizes I can try setting up a hosted image there. > > > > -bryan > > There are FreeBSD VMWare images out there - for example > http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/. I have been playing with one > of them (6.2 based), but the port I have been doing will likely be > based on the latest release, i.e. 7. The fixes for 6.x are minor AFAIK > and patches are always welcome :) > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
