Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 13, 2007 a las 01:42:04AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov escribió: > What is the performance like and have you tried using VMGL for 3D > acceleration? Right now I'm actually in the process of installing > FreeBSD 7.0 on my laptop just to play around with it. I might give > Qemu a try.

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Qemu a try. If I recall correctly, I tried Qemu in the past and the performance was very poor compared to something like VMWare. Perhaps things changed. yes it is slower, but i am using it because i need windows just to access and export ms access databases. not often, speed doesn't matter

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-12 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 8/13/07, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Tuesday, August 07, 2007 a las 12:09:43PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov > escribió: > > ... > > > > I'm still waiting for the day when I can run FreeBSD as my main > > desktop OS, and have a virtual machine with Win XP and 3D accelerati

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, August 07, 2007 a las 12:09:43PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov escribió: ... > > I'm still waiting for the day when I can run FreeBSD as my main > desktop OS, and have a virtual machine with Win XP and 3D acceleration > for gaming. Don't like dual-boot setups, but I don't see any p

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMware

2007-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 8/7/07, Marko Kobal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Many of us would like to see FreeBSD as host OS for VMware. If there would be > enough of us to push onto VMware company, maybe someday this could actualy > happen. Check out (and give your vote) here: > > http://www.vmware.com/community

Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMWare 4.0

2003-12-31 Thread wmrfreebsd
>Anyone have any success getting VMWare 4.0 (Linux Version) to run on >FreeBSD Current (i.e. as host OS)? > >What versions of VMWare do work well with FreeBSD host OS? > >-Rick The way I understand it (I may be wrong), is VMWare does its magic by hooking into the kernel (to mess with pagetables