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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.

3 of 41 comments (clear)

  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. Qemu by ebcdic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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

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