FreeBSD Host OS

[VokinLoksar]

Once again, this thread is for FreeBSD host support.

Can Tim or anyone else from Parallels please give a status update on using FreeBSD as primary OS? Seeing as you already support Mac, I can't imagine that porting it to FreeBSD (or any other BSD for that matter) is significantly difficult. I'm currently in a position to purchase multiple licenses for a VM product, but it must run on a FreeBSD host.

Thanks.

 

[sibyfi]

Has there been anymore discussion on this internally and what is the status?

 

[jkc120]

Still no word? It's been nearly a year and a half since "it was being considered". I guess they stopped considering it. Time to take our money elsewhere I guess...maybe VMware will provide a FreeBSD guest version?

 

[Steve Pole]

Maybe in 2008 ?

This thread has been running for almost 2 years now and there still is no news on the state of FreeBSD as a Parallels host OS.

Are there any developments ?

 

[salvomic]

Are there any developments ?

With 6.2 the only problem I have is the audio that doesn't work.

Anybody tried with the new 7.0 release of fBSD?

thank and regards

Salvo

 

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[Relan]

Are there any developments ?

There is no development on porting Parallels to *BSD. I don't think there will be BSD primary OS support in 2008.

 

[Nadir]

Why not?

If you support FreeBSD as a host OS you have an unique selling point

 

[Eru Ithildur]

And same if you build a COBOL API. Parallels needs to see a large enough market for it; I do not suspect FreeBSD has a large enough market. RHEL, Windows, and CentOS seem to make up a good deal of the market and OS X Virtulization will be a niche point.