From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 17:52:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A1116A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E20643D31 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:52:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@dlfws.net) Received: from unknown (HELO dlfws.net) (the?freak@sbcglobal.net@4.8.22.72 with plain) by smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2004 00:52:18 -0000 Message-ID: <40871744.2070403@dlfws.net> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:52:20 -0700 From: lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031202 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David.Bear@asu.edu References: <20040421215131.GF17648@asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040421215131.GF17648@asu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:52:18 -0000 David Bear wrote: >i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using >vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other >os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? > > >separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe >there any self contained freebsd cd's. Something like knoppix which >launches and loads a complete working freebsd from cdrom? > > > Hiya David, I ran VMWare 2 from Win2000 w/ FreeBSD 4.2 (yeah, this was a while ago). The only problem I ran into was the editor I was using was not releasing the perl scripts for 10 to 15 seconds after saving .. it had a known bug :(. I'm pretty sure I had apache, mod_perl, mysql and various other things running. Thanatos