FreeBSD Player + pfSense works very well. However, I would like to caution that you will not win any performance races if you're trying to route a fair amount of bandwidth (30+ megabit). It would be interesting to see if someone could benchmark VMWare + pfSense.
YMMV. On 1/6/06, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Marquette wrote: > > >Is FreeBSD even supported in MS VS2005? :) I wouldn't consider it > >even a FreeBSD bug until then (heck, it's not even supported in the > >VMWare server versions - fbsd 6 that is) > > > > > > > Adding to that: is there any reason not to use VMware, now that the free > player has been released? > > From > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/virtualizationfaq.mspx > > Q. <javascript:toggleQuestion('title43', 'question43', 'answer43')> > Which operating systems can be run as guests in Virtual Server 2005 R2? > <javascript:toggleQuestion('title43', 'question43', 'answer43')> > > > A. > > The following operating systems are supported guests of Virtual Server: > > • > > Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (Windows Server 2003 SP1 support > for Virtual Server 2005 R2 only) > > • > > Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or later > > • > > Windows Server 2003 Web Edition or later > > • > > Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition or later > > • > > Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition or later > > • > > Windows 2000 Server > > • > > Windows 2000 Advanced Server > > • > > Windows NT Server 4.0 with Service Pack 6a > > • > > Windows XP SP2 (for Virtual Server 2005 R2 only) > > In April 2005, Microsoft announced future plans to support additional > third-party operating systems, including certain Linux distributions, on > Virtual Server 2005 R2. More details of the specific guest operating > systems that will be supported and the means of support will be provided > at a later date. > > > > > Another "virtualization-package" is "Parallels", > http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/ > At least, they officially support FreeBSD upto 5.4, which is also the > situation with VMware: > http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/ > So, I suppose the results may be similar, too. > > > > Rainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
