linux on freebsd?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, James McDonald wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> Anyone keeping linux and FreeBSD on the same box? I feel tempted to give
>>
>> And is there some sensible way to keep a common /home partition? I'm
>> guessing not, due to different filesystems...
>>
> If your processor supports Virtualization (AMD-V or Intel-VT) then you
> can run Xen on linux and have FreeBSD as a client (I think). If not then
> you would probably need VMware
>
Just a PIV...
(But I wanted linux as a client of FreeBSD...)
I thought VMware was not for a FreeBSD host?
How about qemu? (Or is qemu something completelly different (TM)?)
> I installed FreeBSD successfully on VMWare Workstation (or was that
> OpenBSD. no matter).
>
> However you need a lot of RAM so they can coexist without too much
> grabbiness.
I have 1G RAM. But I would have both systems on just occasionally...
>
Jorge