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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:27:34 +0200
From:      cknipe@savage.za.org
To:        Erin Sharmahd <tuxgirl@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?
Message-ID:  <1153376854.44bf22567478c@196.22.132.16>
In-Reply-To: <6e4453640607192136l35f697bdie98468d305ebaed@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6e4453640607192136l35f697bdie98468d305ebaed@mail.gmail.com>

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As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a Host
OS.  i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD
inside VMWare.. 



Quoting Erin Sharmahd <tuxgirl@gmail.com>:

> I'm trying to find some info on google on using vmware server or
> vmplayer on freebsd.  In essence, one of my classes is expecting us to
> do some windows work, and i'd like to do it in vmware or something
> similar so that I don't have to actually install windows....
> 
> Is it even possible currently to use the most recent version of vmware
> or vmplayer on freebsd?  I saw a port for vmware3, but in talking to a
> friend, he said that's really old...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~Erin
> 
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