Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:12:48 -0600 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> To: Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu>, Manfred Usselmann <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de> Cc: "Dongre, Prashant" <ppd2@co.westchester.ny.us>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: VMWARE Message-ID: <99092414144301.00585@darren.hagens.ab.ca> References: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909241432530.7706-100000@team7.cba.ualr.edu>
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Freemware is still not beta software. It is sure coming along though. They really need somebody to do a port to freebsd. They have it for linux and beos but not the only REAL operating system. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:57:18 +0100 > > From: Manfred Usselmann <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de> > > To: "Dongre, Prashant" <ppd2@co.westchester.ny.us> > > Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Subject: Re: VMWARE > > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:39:22 -0400, Dongre, Prashant wrote: > > > > >Has anyone tried running vmware under FreeBSD/Linux emulation. > > > > > > > I am very impressed by this software. > > > > I installed FreeBSD 3.2 as guest OS with NT 4 as host OS. I had no problems with the > > installation. Networking does work too. Only problem I have is the X screen resolution. With > > VGA16 it is OK but with SVGA I only get 320 x 200... The VMware Linux X-Server seems > > not to work ( thats what the docu says, I did not try it myself). This would probably be the > > solution. > > > > It would be very nice if it would even be possible to use FreeBSD as host OS, but currently > > only Linux and Win NT/2000 can be host OS. Then you could have Win 98 for example in a > > window on your FreeBSD system. > > > > I also tested Win 2000 as guest on my NT 4 box. Worked very well. For this combination you > > need a lot of memory though. > > > > Manfred > > > > Take a look at: > > http://www.freemware.org/ > > > -Joe > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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