Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:58:30 +0200 From: Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it> To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd as a virtualbox HOST Message-ID: <533D22B6.6050107@cloverinformatica.it> In-Reply-To: <CALfReyeGww9tQ6w7U9iZ-rOH7_eiEJyr2EOOmhPSWwuxC9-UBg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALfReyeGww9tQ6w7U9iZ-rOH7_eiEJyr2EOOmhPSWwuxC9-UBg@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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