From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Mar 14 5:42:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat200.164.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.200.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C95D37B513 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA53333; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:42:22 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:42:22 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Stephanie Finkelstein Cc: Geoff Smith , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, marketing@vmware.com Subject: Re: FW: VMware under FreeBSD ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Stephanie ... After spending some time working with VMWare under FreeBSD (thanks to the work that Vladimir N. Silyaev did to get things working nicely), I'm interested in getting a permanent license for it ... has there been any progress made on getting a full port made to FreeBSD, as well as an appropriate license (ie. one that doesn't say 'for Linux' in it)? Thanks ... On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Stephanie Finkelstein wrote: > Dear Marc > > Thank you very much for your interest in VMware. > > We appreciate feedback, and we will look in to your suggestion to include > FreeBSD as an option in the registration form. > > Thanks for taking the time to write us. > > Sincerely, > > Stephanie Finkelstein > VMware, Inc. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 10:18 PM > To: webmaster@vmware.com; feature-request@vmware.com > Subject: VMware under FreeBSD ... > > > > I'm currently evaluating the VMWare port that is available for FreeBSD, > and, if all works well, will be licensing a copy for that ... > > But, I think that it would be nice if your online registration form had a > 'FreeBSD' option as to Host OS, so that those of us that do use FreeBSD > can provide an indication of the kind of market you could see by doing a > full port to it ... > > Thanks... > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: > Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: > scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message