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On 23/08/2010 2:26 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 12:39:14PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió:
>
>   
>> Win 7 is a lot better than Vista...
>>     
>>> Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble.
>> VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some
>> kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host is also FreeBSD!)
>> Have not tried very recent versions though, it may have improved.
>>     
> Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live
> CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current
> system. Any objectives with this? Thx
>
> 	matthias
>   

This should work nicely. In fact, in one of my recent projects I did the
exact opposite with great success:

I installed and configured a full system on Vmware Workstation, dumped
the partitions and restored on real hardware.
Saved me countless hours and had the school lab running in less than a day.