Installing FreeBSD 6.x under VMWare Server

First of all you will need to install the host OS, and in this case we are using Windows Server 2003X64 Standard Edition R2 which must include IIS, however could have easily been an approve Linux variant, or even the VMWare ESX solution. In either case it is probably a good idea to ensure that all of the patches and updates have been applied, I mean it is still Windows after all. The nice thing about running FreeBSD in an instance under VMWare Server or any other hardware virtualization platform is that the instance can be easily relocated to new physical hardware without much concern for that new hardware.

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