best way to run vista inside freebsd

I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine
without
rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which
one... I
know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine)
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:02:29PM +0000, Aryeh M. Friedman
wrote:

> I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64)
machine without
> rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so
which one... I
> know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix
machine)

So far, our investigations here indicate, go with Vmware,
but
we haven't tried with vista here yet.  At least I don't
think
anyone has.

////jerry

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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64)
machine without
> rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so
which one... I
> know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix
machine)
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I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard
that 
Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is
about
$45.
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:13:29 -0700
Predrag Punosevac <punosevacmath.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd
(amd64) machine without
> > rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator
(if so which one... I
> > know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix
machine)

> >     
> I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have
heard that 
> Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is
about
> $45.

$45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition.
Does it support Vista
now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which Win4BSD is
partly based .

btw, I thought vmware wkstation  wouldnt work on fbsd...?
has that changed? I
know there is an old port hanging around, but that is quite
old.. a linux
license for VMWare Workstation is needed.


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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:02:29PM +0000, Aryeh M. Friedman
wrote:
> I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64)
machine without
> rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so
which one... I
> know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix
machine)

Have you tried qemu? You might need to replace its bios file
by a newer
one that supports EFI. (google for 'qemu vista').

Roland
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Dear Vista,

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:02 +0000, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64)
machine without
> rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so
which one... I
> know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix
machine)

Vista! You have no UTF-8 based locales (eg., bn_BD.UTF8), so
you are
really useless. Resign yourself, please ;;

-- 
Byung-Hee HWANG <bhizb.knu.ac.kr>
InZealBomb, Kyungpook National University, KOREA

"I'll reason with him."
		-- Vito Corleone, "Chapter 14", page 200
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Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> Dear Vista,
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:02 +0000, Aryeh M. Friedman
wrote:
>   
>> I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64)
machine without
>> rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if
so which one... I
>> know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix
machine)
>>     
>
> Vista! You have no UTF-8 based locales (eg.,
bn_BD.UTF8), so you are
> really useless. Resign yourself, please ;;
>
>   

Has it ever occured to your (closed) mind that people may
have different
goals then you do

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:02:29 +0000
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedmangmail.com> wrote:

> I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64)
machine without
> rebooting what is better wine or...

AFAIK Wine can't run any Windows OS, it runs individual
applications.

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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Norberto Meijome writes:
>
>>> I do not have Windows on any of my machines but
I have heard that
>>> Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I
believe it is about
>>> $45.
>>
>> $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation
edition. Does it
>> support Vista
>> now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which
Win4BSD is partly
>> based .
>
> Win4BSD is not all that stable and the support is
rather lacking. You
> see many posts in their forums with no answer.. and
others with
> answers weeks/months later. 

besides it doesn't work on amd64
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Norberto Meijome writes:

>> I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I
have heard that 
>> Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe
it is about
>> $45.
> 
> $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation
edition. Does it support Vista
> now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which
Win4BSD is partly based .

Win4BSD is not all that stable and the support is rather
lacking. You see 
many posts in their forums with no answer.. and others with
answers 
weeks/months later.

As much I really wanted that software to work.. I don't see
how people are 
going to use it, with such horrible support.
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