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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:39:41 +0200
From:      Rico Secada <coolzone@io.dk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?
Message-ID:  <20060720153941.0437a7e8@dansknet.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20060720063509.P40165@cgate.yournetplus.com>
References:  <6e4453640607192136l35f697bdie98468d305ebaed@mail.gmail.com> <1153376854.44bf22567478c@196.22.132.16> <20060720063509.P40165@cgate.yournetplus.com>

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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:39:28 +0000 (WET)
Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, cknipe@savage.za.org wrote:
> 
> > As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a Host
> > OS.  i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD
> > inside VMWare..
> 
> That would be correct. I own a copy of VMWare for Windows and use it 
> extensively to test out different scenarios with FreeBSD before touching 
> our production server. Works like a charm!

That is not correct!

We use VMWare3 from ports on a FreeBSD machine at our datacenter and it's running Windows XP perfectly. VMWare3 from ports supports FreeBSD as a host perfectly.

Best and kind regards 
Rico



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