FreeBSD linux binary compat was very mature and very workable, circa FreeBSD 4.x - so much so that I ran a normal linux copy of vmware on FreeBSD and could run

FreeBSD linux binary compat was very mature and very workable, circa FreeBSD 4.x - so much so that I ran a normal linux copy of vmware on FreeBSD and could run any OS guest I wanted to. However no work was done to continue to provide the hacks and tweaks and basic documentation that was required to install vmware on FreeBSD (although if you have an old copy, and license, of vmware workstation 3.x, it should work). This is a problem - if you're trying to run FreeBSD as a desktop system, it's a real boon have vmware available, if you should want it. We tried to fix this problem back in 2007: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html ... but there were no serious takers :(