On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jason Grout
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> William Stein wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 2009-Oct-08 20:49:13 -0700, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> OK, everything is done.  Please report problems, noting that DNS can
>>>> take a while still, depending on where you are.
>>> I notice that a number of VMware instances (including freebsd32 and
>>> freebsd64) didn't make it.
>>
>> Absolutely 0 VMware instanced made it because I'm not running VMware anymore.
>>
>>> Unfortunately, FreeBSD support in VirtualBox
>>> is still a work-in-progress and isn't production-ready.
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to resurrect the FreeBSD guests?  As I've mentioned
>>> before, I can't easily develop on anything earlier than FreeBSD 8.x.
>>
>> I really don't like running vmware.  I actually *can't* run it on
>> boxen.math since then virtualbox and vmware will crash.   I could run
>> VMware on another machine, but I have been very, very unhappy with
>> VMware, and would rather never touch it again as long as I live, if
>> possible.
>
>
> If someone were to maintain a vmware image for FreeBSD and whoever else
> needs it (maybe by rsyncing it to the virtualbox image?), would you be
> willing to post it?

I don't understand at all what you're suggesting.

> Peter--that might be a way to get it on the download page.
>
> I'm not volunteering; just bringing it up.

My remark about not hosting a FreeBSD virtual machine was inspired by
Peter's remark that "Unfortunately, FreeBSD support in VirtualBox
is still a work-in-progress and isn't production-ready."  I don't know
if that is really true though given that FreeBSD appears to be
officially supported by VirtualBox, since it is one of the option when
creating a new machine.    Maybe I should try installing it...

 -- William

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