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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:43:38 +0100
From:      "Grant" <orblists@thingysrealm.myftp.org>
To:        "'Didier Wiroth'" <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: vmware alternative for freebsd?
Message-ID:  <000001c544e5$cc574c80$c10415ac@main.net.brooklands.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <0IF700MUN4E72S40@store.etat.lu>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Didier Wiroth
> Sent: 19 April 2005 14:35
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: vmware alternative for freebsd?


> the ports tree. I was wondering if there are any alternatives to vmware,
> commercial or freeware. I'm talking about a host version (I'm not talking
> about guest OSes).

Hey,

There is a few out there for fbsd.. but the only one I have used with
success is qemu.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/qemu/pkg-descr

Its quite quick, but I feel it isn't as quick as vmware is/was.

But it is something to look at, if its just simple things you need from it
it will be fine, but anything CPU heavy I find its not great on.

Another one that you might want to look at is bochs
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/bochs/pkg-descr

I cant really say much about this one, I've tried it before but never got
anywhere, so it might be good for what you need. Or it might be rubbish :)

Anyways gotta do some work :)
Bye. 
Grant.



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