Although performance is not its strong point, QEMU can be a pretty useful tool for running OpenBSD instances on OpenBSD. Some years back, kqemu support allowed for much better OpenBSD performance but, unfortunately, kqemu support was removed quite some time ago. While we are waiting for bhyve to support OpenBSD guests and eventually maybe OpenBSD as a host, qemu will have to do.
Read moreVMware Fusion 5 and VMware Workstation 9 Released
VMware introduced two new products this week, one is VMware Fusion 5 and the other is VMware Workstation 9. Both products add some great new features but the most interesting is a new flavor of VMware Fusion in the form of VMware Fusion 5 Professional. As expected, a new addition to either variety of VMware Fusion 5 is Mountain Lion Support. Also as expected Windows 8 is supported in both flavors of VMware Fusion 5 and also VMware Workstation 9.
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