I would also be VERY excited to see FreeBSD 6/7 available as a HOST OS for VMWare Workstation as well as VMWare Server.

I have a big FreeBSD7 box that my hope was to be able to virtualize a bunch of stuff. That can't happen until/unless VMWare supports FreeBSD as a HOST.

I'm also a VERY big FreeBSD advocate.

What do we (the FreeBSD community) need to do to get support from VMWare?

We would be very interested in moving from VMware Workstation to FreeBSD.

I manage dozens of freebsd servers and 0 linux and I'd prefer to keep it that way. If I can have freebsd under the hood monitoring the system and vmware running windows that would be fantastic. I'm not certain about most people but once you've spent years developing scripts creating app's to monitor raid controllers, temp sensors etc. to have to then do it again for linux is a huge waiste of resources and I'd rather spend the $$ to buy vmware server on bsd than redevelop apps.

Lets go VMWare and provide us with a freebsd server product.

Also on a related note, there are many performance improvements coming up with freebsd7 running multi-core systems that far excede linux under high load scenarios. You guy's would be crazy to not take advantage of those improvment gains to help sell vmware. Look at this for a very good reason why vmware should support freebsd
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html

I'm sure someone would love to compare performance of vmware on freebsd7 vs linux if one could

Yet another vote for FreeBSD as host. I manage dozens of servers, 99% of them FreeBSD for all the obvious reasons. We don't necessarily run *BSD because it's "free," we run it because it is BETTER. Surely this world would pony up the bucks for quality virtualization software...and the *BSD world may be quite a bit larger than you imagine. Finally, if licensed properly, you would find yourself getting boatloads of help from the broader community.

Me too. We currently have ESX populating a blade chassis and virtualcenter... and we got the bucks.

I'm skeptical that this will ever come to fruition, especially with the announcement of ESX 3i. They definitely won't need another kernel for that product now and I'm betting that VMware Server doesn't make them a whole lot of money. The product itself being free but some people pay for support and for the VirtualCenter license for it. I'm not real sure how much Workstation really costs but the amount of people who would run that on FBSD is probably pretty minimal, a few hundred MAYBE. I'm still holding out hope for this, I think VMware Server as a port in FBSD would be very nice. We'll see.

Jerel

Another vote for FreeBSD as HOST OS. We will buy licenses immediately following release.