From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 12:45:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DA7106566C for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:45:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from mail.ultra-secure.de (mail.ultra-secure.de [78.47.114.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0F88FC08 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 38819 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jul 2012 12:43:14 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 38814, pid: 38816, t: 0.0415s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.97.3/m:54/d:15110 Received: from unknown (HELO suse2.ip-tech.ch) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.1) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 5 Jul 2012 12:43:14 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:43:14 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner To: Pete French Message-ID: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host 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: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:45:03 -0000 Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 schrieb Pete French : > So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement > to see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised > servers. I have not done this before personally, but I notice from > post here that it doesnt seem uncommon, and I see Xen related commits > flowing past, so I am guessing it is doable. > > So, for running 8 or 9 STABLE can anyone recommend which hypervisor > works best, and is 8 or 9 better as the OS to run ? Am doing a bit > of research myself, but nothing beats persoanl experience in these > matters! AFAIK, there are no VMware-tools for FreeBSD9 (yet). So, if you need to use ESXi/vSphere, then stay with 8.3 for the time being. There are KVM-drivers for FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 in the ports. Also, full, native support for MSFT-HyperV is coming to FreeBSD9. I wouldn'd bother with the free VMware-server. AFAIK, the latest vcenter has a web-console, so you don't need a Windows VM just to manage your virtualized FreeBSD instances. Hopefully, someone else will have to do all the heavy-lifting of maintaining all the virtualization-infrastructure.