From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 10:41:22 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 899A447C for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-x229.google.com (mail-yh0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c01::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D0DBB77 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f41.google.com with SMTP id v1so2910784yhn.14 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:41:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=EbvMf8lqIcZwVQnk0ZSScdDVRSfp13g5gxjC2P9/IKs=; b=K5PyU1KwYH3o84dfUTUcqFOno0z+ltIsC7bcPeHe+8ShbcwIxju7g1K2ykMQ2zHPXR MhRJDtwsI4gBfV1oUJhgPezBH9C/Wlui2BnKCmxRYnlirQIjuZPT4Wq9rDVDMawqogmI kgZg3j9+gjesEpBtpgBO3kljrIHltHObl/zIVR248TUwoXxIi4VTDT3yxxntnogvDItJ Tnw8vG5oom9uf2a0iL2Z21thNXpfRLmuom6bZxuqtzBxltmwlb1CFDuEkqP7IN2tzvcW 7VjGhal/FhP1SufrOtWTP1eMpKfwzQJkyyyBi21t6T5JbmCEoWOxab6ybk1GwXz2foRH IPRA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.236.94.103 with SMTP id m67mr11174804yhf.104.1396608081499; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.170.54.17 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 03:41:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <533D22B6.6050107@cloverinformatica.it> References: <533D22B6.6050107@cloverinformatica.it> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:41:21 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Freebsd as a virtualbox HOST From: krad Cc: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:41:22 -0000 cool thankyou all for the feedback. wikis are great but they often dont give you a view of the real world as opposed to the theoretical one The box id be running it has 32GB ram so a reasonable amount. A lot of the services I run should be able to fall back to jails, its only really going to need a few windows bits and a unbuntu VM for the bitcasa/dropbox syncing On 3 April 2014 09:58, Maurizio Vairani < maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it> wrote: > On 02/04/2014 16:28, krad wrote: > >> I'm currently running a set of vms on top of solaris 11 and virtualbox. As >> a lot of them are freebsd im thinking I might get better overall >> performance in converting the host OS to freebsd and then running vbox on >> it for the leftover linux and windows vms. >> >> There is scant information out there about freebsd as a host/hypervisor, >> as >> its not officially supported. Does it perform well/bad? Is it stable or >> flakey? Are there any decent resources I havent found yet? >> >> Before anyone asks all my data pools are v28 so importing should be ok >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > I am running FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE as a VirtualBox host with three Windows 7 > VM from February 2013. > The FreeBSD server has an Intel i7 with 64 GB RAM. The server and the VMs > are very, very stable. > I am writing this mail in a Windows 7 VM via Mac OS X Remote Desktop and > seems to work on real PC. > The only real, unique issue is the VM clock drift: it is slow, very slow > and I need to synchronize it every 5 minutes. > In the log I can read from +105ms to +50,43s as adjustment. > > Regards > Maurizio >