Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:35:12 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host Message-ID: <20101111093512.GA2783@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr>
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El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 12:39:14PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > On 23/08/2010 10:08 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've to re-install my laptop with some Windows version (Vista or Windows > > 7) with disk encryption. Of course I will go on to work in FreeBSD > > 9-CURRENT and KDE3 as desktop. Please, don't ask me why I have to put Windows below :-) > > > > I have some questions: > > > > >From the point of view of performance in FreeBSD, what would be better, Vista or > > Win7? > > > > 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. I'm now using Windows7 Professional and VMWare Workstation 7.0. I have only one issue with this so far: Bridged Networking is not working; to be more exactly: the host does not let go out UDP traffic to priv ports <= 1023, for example UDP 53 for DNS; all other is working as expected, IP and UDP to ports > 1023; I tested this with netcat(1) tool. NAT'ed and Host Only networking is fine too. I have Google'd for this and I only see that I'm not alone with this, but as well not alone with no solution; for example here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1454201 Ubuntu as guest has the same problem. A colleague claims that it works fine with SuSE as guest, will check this out with his VM on my host and VMWare installation. Any ideas? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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