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VMware Alternative Now Available On FreeBSD
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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Evan "Haven't found one, don't need it enough to shell out money"
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
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?
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As far as I can tell, the only reasonably fast and complete free emulator is qemu. It's quite portable, and can emulate several processors, including x86 and PPC. You can then install the operating system of your choice.
I had no problem emulating an x86 on my Mac, and installing FreeBSD.
YEEHAAA!!!
*smirk*
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It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying. Everyone knows that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Though details of the accident were not clear, it seemed Dvorin was adjusting his seat belt or had dropped something, and that Bonja reached over to assist and lost control of the car. the website added.
Earlier in the day, Mr Dvorin - aged 81 - had appeared at the Trump 29 Casino in Coachella, California, with Elvis impersonator Paul Casey. His catch-phrase was used by other announcers at Elvis shows, but Dvorin made it his own.
In related news, BSD's corpse was found dumped in a draw near Elko. Due to the advanced state of decay, the cause of BSD's death could not immediately be determined.
I mean even hardened BSd user doesn't care.
Another nail in the coffin I guess.
I tried the Linux version, it looks promising, but is not there yet. The worst part is that Win 2k et al are not very well supported. But maybe they have that working correctly in 2004Q4 too. Anyway, it is nice to see that it runs on FreeBSD. So, vote with your wallet if you want it to stay.
;).
Now we still need a NetBSD version
Ive never got that to work.. Anyone want to toss some hints out....
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Its not practical for application usage due to its speed. ( or rather lack of )
Its strength is the complete emulation for testing of OS's, not for creating a 'useable' virtual environment..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Finally being able to read TFA, I wonder how much help it'll be in a citrix environment.
If you only use thin clients, maybe, but I doubt if you have the right environment for having to use virtual machines then. Many older applications can run on windows with a little tweaking, and if it's about using both windows and *nix/*bsd applications, plenty of ways to be able to run a client/server solution on both platforms (citrix/x11).
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I talked to the staff via phone and e-mail.
1) The product was orginally developed on FreeBSD, then ported to Linux because 'that is where the money was'
2) I told them and VMWare I'd buy a product supported on FreeBSD.
Now I get to send a photocopy of the invoice to the VMWare office....perhaps the CEO's home address and explain how I was happy to BUY thier product - but it seems VMWare didn't wanna sell me a working product.
- Reiser4 is the fastest file system, and the
benchmarks prove it.
- Reiser4 is an atomic file system, which means
that your file system operations either entirely occur, or they entirely
don't, and they don't corrupt due to half occurring. We do this without
significant performance losses, because we invented algorithms to do it
without copying the data twice.
- Reiser4 uses dancing trees,
which obsolete the balanced tree algorithms used in databases (see farther
down). This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other file systems
because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to
block alignment like they do. It also means that Reiser4 scales better
than any other file system. Do you want a million files in a directory,
and want to create them fast? No problem.
- Reiser4 is based on
plug-ins, which means that it will attract many outside contributors,
and you'll be able to upgrade to their innovations without reformatting
your disk. If you like to code, you'll really like plugins....
- Reiser4 is architected for military grade security. You'll
find it is easy to audit the code, and that assertions guard the entrance
to every function.
V3 of reiserfs is used as the default file system for SuSE, Lindows, FTOSX and Gentoo. We don't touch the V3 code except to fix a bug, and as a result we don't get bug reports for the current mainstream kernel version. It shipped before the other journaling file systems for Linux, and is the most stable of them as a result of having been out the longest.Reiser4, for when only the best will do!
Ashlee says, "I know exactly what's under this T-shirt, but I'm going to keep it under wraps."
"Maybe I'll take a few pictures for myself because I have to tell you, I do have great breasts! I am 19, after all."
Still on 4.x here, but with 5.3 about to appear, might give it a try instead..
---- Booth was a patriot ----