Want to try FreeBSD 7.1 in a comfortable, graphical desktop via a VMWare VM? If your answer is yes, visit www.virtualbsd.info and download their 1.5 GB VM. I tried it last night and got it working with VMware 1.0.8 by making the following adjustments:Edit VirtualBSD.vmx to say #virtualHW.version = “6” and VirtualDSW.vmdk to say “glyglygly””]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/virtualbsd-freebsd-71-desktop-in-vm.html