From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Mar 16 07:46:56 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8FF106564A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:46:56 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com)
Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
	(mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98228FC16
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:46:56 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com)
Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130])
	by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id
	m2G7krVs085179; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com)
From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Terry Sposato" <terry@comtron.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:48:05 -0800
Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEHNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914
In-Reply-To: <015101c88732$4d10f290$e732d7b0$@com.au>
Importance: Normal
X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0
	(mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]);
	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: 
Subject: RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:46:56 -0000



> -----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