Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:48:05 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Terry Sposato" <terry@comtron.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEHNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <015101c88732$4d10f290$e732d7b0$@com.au>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Terry Sposato > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:52 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD > > > Hi, > > > > Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port > vmware-tools to FreeBSD. > > As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are > being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our > FreeBSD servers > follow as well. > > > > It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to > FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another > reason? Not > being a developer myself was just wondering if this has been > tackled and if > it is being incorporated somewhere in the future? > Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own "bare metal" product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. Ted
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