Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:39:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x Message-ID: <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> In-Reply-To: <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> References: <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <ygftzvuhk42.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote: > VirtualBox looks VERY nice.. I've seen a thread about a month ago from > someone trying to get it to compile on FreeBSD. After hacking the > configure file a bit, I've gotten closer, but some of the kmk stuff is > linked to libc.so.6, which isn't so good for me running -CURRENT. > Honestly, I think porting vmware is now less interesting knowing that > virtualbox is so competitive, and more easily portable. All very interesting, of course, but the bottom line is that vmware is becoming (or has become) the de facto standard[1] for virtualization and testing across all user platforms (windows, linux, and soon OSX). The upcoming 3d hardware virtualization as well as the prevalance of vmware images as a means of testing and distribution makes it such that I cannot use FreeBSD as my base desktop operating system anymore unless it can support a modern version of Vmware. Which is the impetus for the bounty ... [1] leaving out things like jail, zones, etc.
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