Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 1/26/12 2:56 AM, Doug Barton wrote: On the plus side, we have dozens of production FreeBSD VM's running on a mid-size vSphere 4 development. On the minus side this is down significantly from this time last year. We are migrating to FreeBSD-on-KVM as fast as we can because VMware's support

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Felder
FreeBSD on ESX here. Unfortunately our boss wants us to move to Citrix Xen even though they don't* support VMotion type features on FreeBSD because we've spent upwards of $50,000 USD in support/licensing on VMWare over the last year and it's been over a year without a fix to our crash bug

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Michael Scheidell wrote: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers). He asked how many?

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Robert Watson wrote: I can't speak to your specific experience, but I do know that some VMWare folk contacted the FreeBSD release engineering team late in the 9.0 cycle to ask whether the ISO images appearing on our FTP site were the final versions they should use for

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
On the plus side, we have dozens of production FreeBSD VM's running on a mid-size vSphere 4 development. On the minus side this is down significantly from this time last year. We are migrating to FreeBSD-on-KVM as fast as we can because VMware's support for FreeBSD is as others have described

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-23 Thread Olivier Smedts
2012/1/22 Vinny Abello vi...@abellohome.net: FWIW, I have around a dozen FreeBSD machines in production under VMWare ESXi for network telemetry and caching name servers. Would be interested in running some on ESXi at work if driver support is quite good. -- Olivier Smedts                     

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 23 January 2012 11:44:56 Peter Beckman wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. There is some Dell Blade Hardware that I could not get to run FreeBSD 8. So I installed ESXi and installed FreeBSD as a VM so I

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 22/01/2012 16:12 Matthias Andree said the following: Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Olli Hauer
On 2012-01-21 21:12, Michael Scheidell wrote: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers). He asked how many?

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Olli Hauer
On 2012-01-22 15:12, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level sr

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Vinny Abello
On 1/22/2012 9:12 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 22.01.2012 02:15, schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Rich Winkel
FWIW, we're running a number of fbsd servers under vmware here at missouri.edu. Aside from ntpd issues, remedied by running ntpdate from cron, there have been no problems that I'm aware of. I can forward a 8.2 kernel config to anyone who's interested. It's nothing special though. Rich

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-22 Thread Peter Beckman
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. There is some Dell Blade Hardware that I could not get to run FreeBSD 8. So I installed ESXi and installed FreeBSD as a VM so I didn't have to switch providers. It works OK. I do not know anybody

so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers). He asked how many? Well, I sure can't go back to him and tell him

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers).

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Baker
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:12:53 -0600, Michael Scheidell scheid...@freebsd.org wrote: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. maybe the correct(er) solution would be We've got a couple of companies who would love to take on the responsibility of hacking on and testing the vmware driver support for FreeBSD, please consider negotiating an NDA to get whatever source opened up? Adrian On 21 January 2012 12:12, Michael