Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:45:16 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Though you might get some strange situations depending on the guest OS and emulated machine. cool For example when emulating a x86_64 running XP pro as the Guest OS I can ping/telnet the host OS but I

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 00:47 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? No. He is the fellow who did the VMware 3 port.

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? No, Orlando Bassotto, who is the programmer who did much of the work for the original

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:38:46 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francisco Reyes wrote: Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I didnt know all this. thanks! QEMu will have to keep working for now ;) btw, does QEMU work ok under 64bit? Yes. Though you might get some strange situations depending on the guest OS and emulated machine. For example when emulating a x86_64 running XP pro as the Guest OS I can

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Francisco Reyes wrote: Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it support Vista now? interesting..you can

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it support Vista now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-22 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Ghirai wrote: I managed to run XP on qemu, it was pretty painless. I'll try with vista the next couple of days and report back. What disk image type and what version of FreeBSD do you run (for me 8-current amd64) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-21 Thread Ghirai
I managed to run XP on qemu, it was pretty painless. I'll try with vista the next couple of days and report back. --- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:02:29PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) Have you tried qemu? You

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 19 October 2007, Frank Jahnke wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank Staals wrote: What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I did some research on it some time ago but the best I could find was that there was someone porting vmware-workstation 4.5.X to FreeBSD

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Matt
On 10/19/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. For me it is the biggest problem with using a FreeBSD desktop. One other sign of hope: there has been intermittent work on a port of VirtualBox. When I checked last, the GUI environment would build. That's certainly not a complete

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:23 -0500, Matt wrote: VirtualBox builds from the Innotek svn sources, and the GUI runs but with some issues. However, it is possible to boot a full VM instance from within VirtualBox on a FreeBSD host (which is very promising). The major missing component (that I'm

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Frank Staals
Frank Jahnke wrote: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. I do hope this works, because right now things in the VM world on FreeBSD truly are bleak. Frank What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank Staals wrote: What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I did some research on it some time ago but the best I could find was that there was someone porting vmware-workstation 4.5.X to FreeBSD allthough there were quite a lot problems so

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Frank Staals wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. I do hope this works, because right now things in the VM world on FreeBSD truly are bleak. Frank What is the status of that

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Frank Jahnke
I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. Your hearing is not good. Win4BSD is a terrible product when compared with the very old version of VMware. Its only advantage is that you can run it with more than one CPU (namely, APIC is enabled). Win4BSD is less stable, less responsive, and it

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:02:29 + Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or... AFAIK Wine can't run any Windows OS, it runs individual applications.

Re: [Off Topic] Vista Sucks! (Was: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd)

2007-10-19 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Dear Vista, On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:02 +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix

[Off Topic] Vista Sucks! (Was: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd)

2007-10-19 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Dear Vista, On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:02 +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) Vista! You have no

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-18 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) ___

best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-18 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-18 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:13:29 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-18 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. Your hearing is not good. Win4BSD is a terrible product when compared with the very old version of VMware. Its only advantage is that you can run it with more than one CPU (namely, APIC is enabled).