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FreeBSD Gets Official Support As VMware ESX Guest

Posted by timothy on from the be-their-guest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD 4.9 has become the first non-commercial open-source operating system to be supported as a VMware ESX guest. This allows enterprise users to benefit from a powerful open-source OS with the benefit of subscription free binary updates. This also solves a number of enterprise support issues around lack of hardware vendor support and issues around using non-commercial operating systems on SAN fabrics as the SAN access is abstracted through VMware, which the SAN supplier is more likely to have certified."

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  1. How about VMWare host? by TheLink · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just wondering if they'd ever support FreeBSD as a host O/S (for more recent versions of vmware).

    I suppose Linux will have to do for the meantime. The trouble is which linux distro? Looks like I'd have to try CentOS.

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