Re: OT? VMWare on *BSD?

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:03:36PM -0700, Kevin Sindhu wrote:

> Bryan Carter Vyhmeister wrote:
>
> > It works perfectly on FreeBSD and is even in the FreeBSD ports
> > tree. I was  using it until I switched to  OpenBSD. I have not
> > tried it with OpenBSD. As far  as I know, the NetBSD "port" is
> > not related to the FreeBSD port but I could be wrong.
>
> No it not.  Works great however. Some problems  such floppy disk
> drive and needs to be run  as root remain, but otherwise I found
> it to be faster on my machine than on Linux

Is this to say that the NetBSD  port of VMware runs on OpenBSD and
is faster than on Linux, or to  say that the NetBSD port of VMware
runs faster than under Linux, or....

I  can  confirm  that  the  FreeBSD  port  of  VMware  works  just
simmingly, but it had been my understanding that running VMware on
OpenBSD isn't an option at this time.

b&

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