Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:18:34 -0500 From: Diego Arias <dak.col@gmail.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host Message-ID: <AANLkTinx6cSQ-dha3y%2BBFDiOTT_wsqaJ4fwHOgpt7YV2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr> References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> <20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de> <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote: > On 23/08/2010 2:26 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El d=C3=ADa Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 12:39:14PM +0300, Manolis Kia= gias > escribi=C3=B3: > > > > > >> Win 7 is a lot better than Vista... > >> > >>> Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best > performance? > >>> > >>> > >> Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble. > >> VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some > >> kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host is also FreeBSD!) > >> Have not tried very recent versions though, it may have improved. > >> > > Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD liv= e > > CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current > > system. Any objectives with this? Thx > > > > matthias > > > > This should work nicely. In fact, in one of my recent projects I did the > exact opposite with great success: > > I installed and configured a full system on Vmware Workstation, dumped > the partitions and restored on real hardware. > Saved me countless hours and had the school lab running in less than a da= y. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Hi: I use Virtualbox for my desktop and have 1 VM running on Vsphere 4 (FreeBSD 8). Only have problem once of data loss because i used ATA disk instead of SCSI. Diego Arias --=20 mmm, interesante.....
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