Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:13:08 -0600 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> Cc: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; =?UTF-8?Q?How=3F?= Message-ID: <5dcefb214b0503028606f53da194f4c1@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <28B68434-113E-4ABA-931E-3DAB666A2BA5@longcount.org> References: <CAF-3MvPCUDjv4tGeFBf1DkRC6gr2QGsMUT_uH6Q0UU9mo9tv_g@mail.gmail.com> <0ac901cf2437$458837b0$d098a710$@FreeBSD.org> <773DBB2B-D421-44DB-848F-E4B7A9238085@gmail.com> <20140208203859.b6a9c4f555b7e8301541e676@mimar.rs> <1392385745.4914.83410473.135CDC76@webmail.messagingengine.com> <28B68434-113E-4ABA-931E-3DAB666A2BA5@longcount.org>
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On 02/14/2014 8:43 am, Mark Saad wrote: >> On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014, at 13:38, Marko Cupać wrote: >>> First of all, I wouldn't go with 10-RELEASE, as it is not officially >>> supported. Go for 9.2-RELEASE amd64 or expect all kinds of problems. >> >> "FreeBSD" is "not officially supported" by VMWare. Trust me. We threw >> $60,000 at them and they still wouldn't acknowledge bugs. I couldn't >> even find an engineer that knew what FreeBSD was! >> > > So you need to remind the engineers at VMware their parent company EMC > uses and sells things based on FreeBSD. Mainly Isilon and spectra > logic as well as other things . > > >> Plus you have to consider that we don't even know what version of ESXi >> he's working with in the first place. According to their OS support >> matrix, FreeBSD 9.2 is only "supported" on ESXi 5.5. >> >> http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software&partner=109&testConfigurations=16&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc&testConfig=16 >> ______________________________________________ > > If we , all of the VMware users who use FreeBSD on esxi , work out a > good set I notes for using VMware esxi + FreeBSD and work up a good > page on wiki.freebsd.org; we can make some of the users have a better > experience and we can help EMC / VMware with support as a Side effect > . > > Anyone interested in helping ? > > --/ > Mark Saad > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I would be interested, I have been running various version of FreeBSD on various ESX and VMWare for some time. I have found few little gotchas, but for the most part it has been running great. Including FreeBSD 10, on the latest version of VMware Workstation, ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.1. I don't however use the VMware Tools install from within VMware, and instead use the emulators/open-vm-tools port. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/
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