On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Grant wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier Wiroth > > Sent: 19 April 2005 14:35 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: vmware alternative for freebsd? > > > > the ports tree. I was wondering if there are any alternatives to vmware, > > commercial or freeware. I'm talking about a host version (I'm not talking > > about guest OSes). > > Hey, > > There is a few out there for fbsd.. but the only one I have used with > success is qemu. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/qemu/pkg-descr > > Its quite quick, but I feel it isn't as quick as vmware is/was. > > But it is something to look at, if its just simple things you need from it > it will be fine, but anything CPU heavy I find its not great on. > > Another one that you might want to look at is bochs > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/bochs/pkg-descr
There is also wine, depending on what exactly you need. Dosbox is nice if all you need to do runs in dos. > > I cant really say much about this one, I've tried it before but never got > anywhere, so it might be good for what you need. Or it might be rubbish :) > > Anyways gotta do some work :) > Bye. > Grant. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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