Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:32:09 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org> Cc: David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com>, orlando@break.net, ports@freebsd.org, matusita@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware-player Message-ID: <cb5206420510310932v12bd838dg6dfbdb833b12472@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43664EBF.9000206@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <20051029233027.58267.qmail@web31009.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <cb5206420510291812q191b3522mefed1728d72715fb@mail.gmail.com> <43664EBF.9000206@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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On 10/31/05, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org> wrote: > > There's been no discussion on questions@ yet. > > > > Have you tried to run it? > > I doubt if it runs on FreeBSD. > > Reason: VMware Player is a reduced-feature version of VMware Workstation = 5.5 > that is not released yet (hopefully released RSN), and VMware Workstation= 5.x > is not ported to FreeBSD yet IIRC. > > -- > Makoto `MAR' Matsushita > I only need VMware to run FreeBSD on Windows or Linux. So there's really no point in porting it, is there? Qemu is a very nice virtualization solution. For anything less than that we have jails, which are getting better even as we speak.
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