Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:15:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: YTResearch <ytresearch@hughes.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and VMWare Message-ID: <20060623181547.592ac6dc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <6C8C7DFA-4F36-4FA6-816F-744149C6C747@hughes.net> References: <6C8C7DFA-4F36-4FA6-816F-744149C6C747@hughes.net>
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In response to YTResearch <ytresearch@hughes.net>: > I noticed that someone asked questions concerning VMware on FreeBSD > which was my first realization that the two even go together. I have > the opportunity to advocate FreeBSD as a possible replacement to run > that software as a parting shot in the next week prior to finally > retiring from that organization. They are a very large windows > operation but are putting in some Linux/VMware to reduce the windows > server hardware platforms (I already know that this is of dubious > value when they could natively migrate and just eliminate the > servers, efficiency is not an option in the corporate world paradigms). > > Before I actually recommend they do this on ~80 servers, I would like > to verify that it really can be done to move to a FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE/ > VMware environment to support W2K3 and E2K3 on a virtual machine? Has > anyone done this? FreeBSD 6 runs fine _inside_ vmware -- as a virtual machine. I used it daily with almost no trouble (and the small amount of trouble is likely to be unrelated to vmware). I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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