Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 13:28:45 -0700 Yuri wrote: I can't build it, I am getting the following errors. And message to freebsd-emulation@ from 02/10 was never answered. Don't bother. VirtualBox is eminently better and free. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't alr

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Yuri
Henrik Hudson wrote: I've only ever installed Windows guests. Is the FreeBSD host system freezing up or the Linux guest install? I've installed various versions since VirtualBox hit ports and I've never had an issue, so I've never tried to troubleshoot anything, so I wouldn't know where to point

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Yuri wrote: > Henrik Hudson wrote: > > There is currently a bug in the FreeBSD-stable kernel (newer then > > Jan 29th) or so which caused the current VirtualBox install to > > freeze. Just follow the intructions on the VirtualBox FreeBSD wiki > > to pull the latest 3.1.4 Virtu

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Yuri
Henrik Hudson wrote: There is currently a bug in the FreeBSD-stable kernel (newer then Jan 29th) or so which caused the current VirtualBox install to freeze. Just follow the intructions on the VirtualBox FreeBSD wiki to pull the latest 3.1.4 VirtualBox and you should be good. http://wiki.freebsd

Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Yuri wrote: > I can't build it, I am getting the following errors. And message to > freebsd-emulation@ from 02/10 was never answered. Considering that VMware is now at version 7 something I would just move on and use VirtualBox. 95% of the stuff VMware 7 can do it can do, al

Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?

2010-03-17 Thread Yuri
I can't build it, I am getting the following errors. And message to freebsd-emulation@ from 02/10 was never answered. errors cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DCDEV_MAJOR_=200 -DDDB -DVMX86_DEBUG -DSMP -DAPIC_IO -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread David King
AFAIK, VMWare does not support FreeBSD as a host (YES as a guest) in their latest versions of the Workstation line. I havent heard of host as for the Server line, but I could be wrong. Does it run under Linux emulation? ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Chris Knipe
- VM Server isn't supported either. I am not so sure it would be as simple as mapping the linux commands to bsd ones... the fact that it needs the *mod linux commands implies they use linux kernel modules... which I would say are not compatible with BSD. I'd love to be proven wrong :) 100%

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:53:39 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone commented, that its impossible to run VMWare on FreeBSD as a host, > but thats wrong. Sorry, should have been more precise: - latest versions of VMWare Workstation (4.5 + ) are not supported (and m

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Robin Becker
Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) > Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking >> for comments from people who may have done this. > > I may be completelly off the mark here...but I think the VMWare Se

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Rico Secada
g Windows XP. It runs perfect. During setup I testet other solutions qemu etc. but found that VMWare out-speeds them all. VMWare is very fast, so fast that you almost wont notice its virtual. Someone commented, that its impossible to run VMWare on FreeBSD as a host, but thats wrong. I

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Chris Knipe
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK, VMWare does not support FreeBSD as a host (YES as a guest) in their latest versions of the Workstation line. I havent heard of host as for the Server line, but I could be wrong. Quest Yes, Host No. VMServer does s

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking > for comments from people who may have done this. I may be completelly off the mark here...but I think the VMWare Server is more like XEN rather than Q

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:27:07AM -0400, Peter wrote: > I am not attached to any one product. I would prefer to go the OSS > route. What limitations does qemu have? Can you connect to the guest > machines remotely? How can you say it is better than vmware if you > have never used it? Thanks f

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, August 15, 2006 a las 04:27:07AM -0400, Peter escribió: > I am not attached to any one product. I would prefer to go the OSS > route. What limitations does qemu have? Can you connect to the guest > machines remotely? How can you say it is better than vmware if you > have never

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Peter
--- Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD > > 6.0? I'm looking > > for comments from people who may have done this. > Sorry if I am side tracking but why bother about > vmware when qe

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD > 6.0? I'm looking > for comments from people who may have done this. Sorry if I am side tracking but why bother about vmware when qemu can do a much better job? Please feel free to flame me if vmware can

vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-14 Thread Peter
Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___

VMWare on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-12-06 Thread Ron Clark
Hello all, I have loaded VMWare from the ports collection and now trying to import a Windows XP virtual machine from another system. I am having a couple of issues though. <= /p> 1. The system has 512M RAM on the system, yet VMWare only "sees" 16M= in the Preferences sect

vmware on freebsd 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread sd
Hello World! I've tried several times to install vmware2 & 3 on my freebsd 5.4 box. No attempts were successfull with different errors. Especially, for vmware3 port the error was: ..404 Not Found. Why it still exists in ports collection if no sites keep it anymore? OK, I'll be glad to hear any

VMware on FreeBSD

2003-01-21 Thread Okeke
Hello, I cannot use VMware 2.x on FreeBSD 4.7-prod because I don't have a 2.x license #. I use VMware for Linux host but I cannot use that 3.x license # on my FreeBSD system. Can you direct me to where I can find a work-around? or how I can run VMware 3.x on FreeBSD? Any help is much appreciate