"Virtualization, which is one of my main use cases, works but is far from perfect." There was a brief period of time when the current, linux release of vmware

"Virtualization, which is one of my main use cases, works but is far from perfect." There was a brief period of time when the current, linux release of vmware workstation (v3.0, IIRC) was fully supported under the linux binary compat functionality of FreeBSD. What this meant was that circa 2002/2003 you could run vmware workstation on FreeBSD and it worked perfectly. I ran all manner of Windows and Linux VMs under it. I currently use vmware fusion on OSX so I haven't given it a try lately, but my impression is that spinning up a windows VM on a FreeBSD workstation is still not as painless as it was back then ...