From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 09:55:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F8B1065676 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:55:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ingresso.co.uk) Received: from constantine.ingresso.co.uk (constantine.ingresso.co.uk [IPv6:2a02:b90:3002:e550::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C348FC0A for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dilbert.london-internal.ingresso.co.uk ([10.64.50.6] helo=dilbert.ingresso.co.uk) by constantine.ingresso.co.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SkXv6-000453-UA; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:55:21 +0100 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ingresso.co.uk with local (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SkXv6-0003Yp-TW; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:55:20 +0100 To: phoemix@harmless.hu In-Reply-To: <20120629115005.00005820@unknown> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:55:20 +0100 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Hypervisor ( was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:55:22 -0000 > - Lack of proper support for a decent hypervisor for virtualisation. > We can't make a hypervisor out of freebsd, if there are no such > virtualisations available like XEN, kvm or something similar, that > just works out of the box. What do you need that VirtualBox doesn't provide ? I used to bemoan the lack of a hypervisor too, but vince VBox arrived in FreeBSD I have had no complaints. I use it to run Windows instances both as desktop clients and also servers, and it works beautifully. Combined with a ZVOL underneath (and hence all the delights of ZFS snapshots) it';s a great solution. -pete.