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VMware Alternative Now Available On FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the what-to-wear-today dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Serenity Systems International has announced a public beta (costing 50 USD) of 'Serenity Virtual Station' running for the first time on FreeBSD. While existing VMware owners are able to run the version 2 or 3 under Linux binary compatibility and the ports of the Linux kernel modules to FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x respectively, there is no working port of the currently available VMware 4 kernel module; this may provide an alternative to those wishing to purchase a VM today." Here is the full announcement, including a link to the online store.

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  1. Slashdotting from the BSD section?!? by pschmied · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, this must be a first. Their website appears to be down and this was linked from the BSD section.

    BSD trolls can put that in their respective pipes and smoke it.

    -Peter

    P.S. Did anyone download this? Does it work? Is it even remotely as good as VMWare?

    --
    . Penguins Surely Ca
    1. Re:Slashdotting from the BSD section?!? by Tezkah · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought this was a troll on *BSD, seeing how the webside was /.'d from the *BSD section...

      ...but it turns out that they're running Linux!

    2. Re:Slashdotting from the BSD section?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      So I guess that Netcraft has confirmed that Li... oh, never mind.