From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Mar 14 9:44: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from geneva.vmware.com (geneva.vmware.com [205.178.44.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1971737B707 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:43:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephanie@vmware.com) Received: from portland (portland [205.178.44.101]) by geneva.vmware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA29801; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:43:47 -0800 From: "Stephanie Finkelstein" To: "The Hermit Hacker" Cc: "Geoff Smith" , , Subject: RE: FW: VMware under FreeBSD ... Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:44:15 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Marc, I'm glad that you're interested in a license. However, at this time we still have no plans to support FreeBSD as a host. Thanks for your interest, and for taking the time to write us. Regards, Stephanie VMware, Inc. stephanie@vmware.com -----Original Message----- From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 5:42 AM To: Stephanie Finkelstein Cc: Geoff Smith; freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; marketing@vmware.com Subject: Re: FW: VMware under FreeBSD ... 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