Can I use a FreeBSD VM from Fusion on VMWare Server?

[JasonN]

Greetings,

I just converted my FreeBSD web and mail server to a Fusion VM. It smokes on my new iMac BTW! However, I may have a need to run it on VMWare Server. Can anyone tell how feasible this is? The Hosted OS is FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE. Thank you.

[admin]

Depends on which version of Server. Server 2 uses the same virtual hardware version as Fusion, so you can just copy it over and (barring any host-specific paths) it should work. Server 1 uses the previous virtual hardware version, but Fusion doesn't have a way to downgrade this. Workstation 6 does, however, and you could use a demp version to convert the virtual machine.

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[JasonN]

Thank you for the information. However, since VM Server 2.0 is in beta... how stable is it?

[admin]

Dunno, never used it. I'm biased of course, but with no information other than that it's our product, I would trust it

Edit: oreeh is of course correct - I meant I would trust it for testing purposes, but I think you're crazy if you use any beta product for production.

[oreeh]

I wouldn't use the beta for production.