Re: VM Options

2008-02-19 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Jack Barnett wrote: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old and still stuck on version 3 the last time I tried it. Are there any other options available? One more word for qemu. Works much faster with kqemu-kmod

Re: VM Options

2008-02-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i think it uses kemu, but its really a simple installation process, the whole thing is just a package, contained in the iso image i linked earlier. i will look at it for fun, but - i always prefer normal than simple installation process because it's good to know what actually happened.

Re: VM Options

2008-02-15 Thread David Schulz
right On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think it uses kemu, but its really a simple installation process, the whole thing is just a package, contained in the iso image i linked earlier. i will look at it for fun, but - i always prefer normal than simple installation

Re: VM Options

2008-02-14 Thread David Schulz
noone mentioned www.win4bsd.com , win4bsd can be used to run a windows machine from within freebsd nicely. performance is pretty good also. On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:54 AM, neal wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2008, Jack Barnett wrote: So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any other

Re: VM Options

2008-02-14 Thread Jack Barnett
Hrm... I can't find it in the ports or a download version of it? I don't mind paying for it, but want to see if it actually works well before buying it. David Schulz wrote: noone mentioned www.win4bsd.com , win4bsd can be used to run a windows machine from within freebsd nicely. performance

Re: VM Options

2008-02-14 Thread David Schulz
Hey, to download it: For Win4BSD: ftp://ftp.vbridges.com/pub/releases/bsd/pro/1.1/Win4BSD-1.1.iso I think you can try the trial for 30 days, after that, its 29.99USD Thanks, David On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Jack Barnett wrote: Hrm... I can't find it in the ports or a download

Re: VM Options

2008-02-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
noone mentioned www.win4bsd.com , win4bsd can be used to run a windows machine from within freebsd nicely. performance is pretty good also. does it need special requirements on kernel versions, modules etc? On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:54 AM, neal wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2008, Jack Barnett

Re: VM Options

2008-02-14 Thread David Schulz
i think it uses kemu, but its really a simple installation process, the whole thing is just a package, contained in the iso image i linked earlier. On Feb 15, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: noone mentioned www.win4bsd.com , win4bsd can be used to run a windows machine from

Re: VM Options

2008-01-24 Thread Jack Barnett
Robert Eckardt wrote: It depends on what you want to do. To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well under FreeBSD. Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow. So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any

Re: VM Options

2008-01-24 Thread Mark D. Foster
Jack Barnett wrote: To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well under FreeBSD. Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow. So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any other options? Some other ideas...

Re: VM Options

2008-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
Jack Barnett wrote: Robert Eckardt wrote: It depends on what you want to do. To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well under FreeBSD. Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow. So Jail, Qemu and VMWare

Re: VM Options

2008-01-24 Thread neal
On Thursday 24 January 2008, Jack Barnett wrote: So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any other options? I'm planning to do something similar but have moved to Kubuntu to run VMWare, then I can run PCBSD as a vm 'thingy' ;). neal. ___

VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Jack Barnett
Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old and still stuck on version 3 the last time I tried it. Are there any other options available? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Norman Maurer
Am Mittwoch, den 23.01.2008, 13:11 -0600 schrieb Jack Barnett: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old and still stuck on version 3 the last time I tried it. Are there any other options available? If you just

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jack Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old and still stuck on version 3 the last time I tried it. VMWare on FreeBSD is a no-op. Someone should really remove that port

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:11 -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old Jails and as a Xen guest --- probably with a NetBSD or GNU/Linux host. There's always Solaris domain. :} ~BAS

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Eckardt
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:23:16 -0500, Bill Moran wrote In response to Jack Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old and still stuck on version 3 the last time I tried it. It depends

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you just want to run other FreeBSD's I whould try jail ( man jail ). It's covered in the handbook too.. and it works PERFECT. i run 14 jails on one machine, no problems. the only (but big) disadventage are lack of IPv6 in jail. hope it will be fixed.

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, January 23, 2008 a las 10:53:31PM +0100, Robert Eckardt escribió: VMWare on FreeBSD is a no-op. Someone should really remove that port. That's nonsense. The current (very old) port is quite out-dated and it took me some time to get it running right e.g. with VMware 3