FreeBSD Host OS

Discussion in 'Feature Suggestions' started by wcf3, Mar 23, 2006.

  1. VokinLoksar

    VokinLoksar Bit poster

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    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.
     
  2. sibyfi

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    Has there been anymore discussion on this internally and what is the status?
     
  3. jkc120

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    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?
     
  4. Steve Pole

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    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 ?
     
  5. salvomic

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    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
     
  6. salmanq

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  7. Relan

    Relan Parallels Developers

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

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    Why not?

    If you support FreeBSD as a host OS you have an unique selling point
     
  9. Eru Ithildur

    Eru Ithildur Forum Maven

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    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.
     

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