> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:34 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird + VMWare
>
> Helen Borrie wrote:
> > Sean, Adam and others who have
> experimented/failed/succeeded with VMWare as the platform for
> Firebird servers - it would be FANTASTIC if you would get
> your heads together and write a HOWTO doc on this subject. I
> hereby offer to edit it and do what it takes to make it
> available as a proper firebird-docs document.
> >
> > ./heLen
> >
>
> I, too, have run Firebird under VMWare, with both linux and
> windows hosts and guests, without any problems or any change
> in the installation procedure. It Just Worked. I've also
> connected to firebird servers, running in virtual machines,
> from the host and from other virtual machines. Again, it
> just worked without any special hand-holding.

I'll add another. We've run FB under VMWare workstation for years without any trouble, installed in many flavors of Windows as well as Gentoo Linux.

No need for any howto as far as I can tell, just install as normal for the guest OS.