Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:06:54PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. As VMware server ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 9:00:44 PM, Peter confabulated: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter I currently am running VMWare Workstation v5.5.2 on my XP Pro at home with a 3.2Ghz Pentium and 4 Gig of ram. I use it mainly for a test bed. In my current testing of some things for work, I have four FreeBSD v6.1 servers set up. It runs nice with the extra memory. Prior to the memory upgrade, things ran extreamly slow once I brought the second virtual server up. As far as VMWare's Server, it is a free download (at least for now). I did have that loaded once. I found it to be really slow booting an OS over the Internet. I've pretty much given up on it because of the slowness. I like the idea of being able to boot a virtual machine over the Internet and having access to it. To the host, it runs in the background. You use either the installable console version of the client or you can access the host via a web browser. Once the OS is booted, you can disconnect from it and leave it running in the background. Whenever you want to manage the virtual server, you connect in and it's there. I would imagine this will only get better over time. Workstation has come along way since the free version was last offered (3+ years ago I believe). -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
Sounds like you want something almost as good as VMware Workstation, but free...thats VMware Server. VMware Player is really for static distribution purposes; doesn't allow you to snapshot or create VMs. I'm using VMware Server for FreeBSD 6.1 on Win XP now...works great!! ke han On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe as well as any common pitfalls. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
