Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:15:02 +0000 From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: racerx@makeworld.com Cc: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware equivalent? Message-ID: <45C8D3B6.4030506@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45C8BF4D.90109@makeworld.com> References: <45C7C7A7.8080709@chrismaness.com> <ba5e78ea0702051626o243d1728k4e0638f4412ba834@mail.gmail.com> <a9f4a3860702051651k76ced89fic018cc7b2588c0a6@mail.gmail.com> <20070206151547.GB15485@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070206074418.E93062@ns1.internetinsite.com> <20070206161405.31e1d7d2@gumby.homeunix.com> <45C8BF4D.90109@makeworld.com>
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Chris wrote: > RW wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) >> Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I have been running vmware, and it works very well, but if I can find >>> a open source version that works well, I would like to move in that >>> direction. Thanks for the tips guys. >>> >> If you do try qemu try building it with kqemu support. qemu does full >> emulation (which is needed for running an OS for a different platform). >> kqemu allows some of the guest OS instructions to run directly on the >> CPU, which is much faster. kqemu is not as mature as qemu, and if it >> doesn't works for you, you will find qemu much slower than vmware >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > I would try VMWare 3 myself (ports tree) however, I'm unclear how to > obtain a working key. Any ideas? > From the README vmware3 installs "After a successful port installation you will need to obtain a license key to run VMware (you can use an old one for Linux). If you want to obtain a new key from http://www.vmware.com , you will have to select Linux as the 'server' platform." regards, Vince
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