Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x

[John Kozubik]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:

> VirtualBox looks VERY nice..  I've seen a thread about a month ago from
> someone trying to get it to compile on FreeBSD.  After hacking the
> configure file a bit, I've gotten closer, but some of the kmk stuff is
> linked to libc.so.6, which isn't so good for me running -CURRENT.
> Honestly, I think porting vmware is now less interesting knowing that
> virtualbox is so competitive, and more easily portable.


All very interesting, of course, but the bottom line is that vmware is
becoming (or has become) the de facto standard[1] for virtualization and
testing across all user platforms (windows, linux, and soon OSX).

The upcoming 3d hardware virtualization as well as the prevalance of
vmware images as a means of testing and distribution makes it such that I
cannot use FreeBSD as my base desktop operating system anymore unless it
can support a modern version of Vmware.

Which is the impetus for the bounty ...



[1] leaving out things like jail, zones, etc.