From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 26 15:47:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8169C37B5E1 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 15:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA26772; Fri, 26 May 2000 23:46:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA40194; Fri, 26 May 2000 23:46:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200005262246.XAA40194@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "James Halstead" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, Mark Knight Subject: Re: Linux emu question In-Reply-To: Message from "James Halstead" of "Fri, 26 May 2000 03:32:06 EDT." <012d01bfc6e4$7fa312e0$96c3d9d1@halste07> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:46:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I noticed some people talking about the linux emulation and how good/bad it > can be and I just wondered, does anybody here have any experiences with the > vmware for linux software? I have been thinking of buying this, for those > one or two windows programs that I need to use now and then. To add to the other responses.... I run OpenBSD-current under VMware2 (on my FreeBSD-current laptop) and also run NT4 when I need to read lotus scrotes mail at work. It's very stable (bar the recent module changes which are probably now fixed with the latest vmware2/Makefile update). Mark Knight (cc'd) runs FreeBSD-current in a vmware2 box under NT very successfully up until about a week ago (he's having some nasty panics with currents built within the last week). Julian Elischer runs FreeBSD-current under vmware? on a FreeBSD-current box with no complaints afaik. > Just wondering, It's worth the $99 in my book ! > James. > ------------------------------------------------------- > ICQ #19675056 > Public key available at: > http://www.dreamscape.com/halstead/jh.asc > ------------------------------------------------------- -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message