running FreeBSD on Windows host

Gautham Ganapathy gautham at lisphacker.org
Thu Sep 16 21:31:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Sergio Tam <tam.sergio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/8/23 Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>:
>>
>> Hello,
>
> Hi Matthias
>>
>> Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance?
>
> VMware
>
> or Virtual PC
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
>
>

Hi

The free VMware server (if still available) was generally much faster
than Virtual PC, but that was sometime back (Solaris SXDE wouldn't
even install under Virtual PC, but worked great with VMware).
Something to do with only user-mode virtualization? Not sure if this
is still true

Gautham


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