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Old 19th July 2008
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Originally Posted by paragkalra View Post
8.] I should be able to install VMware on it :-)
This one will be your only problem. I assume that you want to use FreeBSD as a VMware host. The only version available is very old, Workstation 3.2.1. It does work, but you cannot use more than a single core when you do.

The only real options are qemu/kqemu and Win4BSD, which is based on qemu. Neither I find to be particularly fast (VMware is fine) but my hardware is rather old.

VirtualBox is making slow progress on a port, but it is not there yet.

If you *absolutely* require VMware, and the very old 3.2 version does not do it for you, then you are out of luck.

Now if you are talking about using a FreeBSD guest, then that works fine in VMware (but not in VBox).
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