Talking of FreeBSD bounties, VMWare 6.x?

John Murphy fbsd32 at freeode.co.uk
Thu Mar 19 09:02:20 PDT 2009


On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:01:20 +0000 Rick N wrote:

>  I understand Vmware is commercial, but what about  Sun's/OpenSolaris's xVM, (VirtualBox) its free. I haven't played with it in awhile but FreeBSD could be run as a Guest OS.  Maybe the newer version can support FreeBSD hosting. Needless,  its popular within alot of linux users, ...

Hi Rick,

Yes, I use VirtualBox regularly on my <blush> Linux-Mint desktop.
It works extremely well, apart from its fledgling OpenGL support.
It's great for those, thankfully rare, occasions when I need to
run the Redmond software.

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Thanks, John.


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