From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 6 19:15:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A64D16A401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:15:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (www.unsane.co.uk [85.233.185.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7994E13C47E for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.100] (crayfish.unsane.co.uk [10.0.0.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l16JGErp085330 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:16:14 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <45C8D3B6.4030506@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:15:02 +0000 From: Vince Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: racerx@makeworld.com References: <45C7C7A7.8080709@chrismaness.com> <20070206151547.GB15485@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070206074418.E93062@ns1.internetinsite.com> <20070206161405.31e1d7d2@gumby.homeunix.com> <45C8BF4D.90109@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <45C8BF4D.90109@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: RW , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware equivalent? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:15:31 -0000 Chris wrote: > RW wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) >> Chris Maness 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