From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 23:38:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6EB106564A for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:38:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50748FC13 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:38:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.193]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCED5C21 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 09:43:44 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4D1E68BA.9080001@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:35:22 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101227 Thunderbird/3.0.11 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D1E061E.9070306@mgwigglesworth.net> In-Reply-To: <4D1E061E.9070306@mgwigglesworth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:38:51 -0000 On 01/01/11 02:34, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > > Greetings. > > I have been searching for solutions to the problem of jails not being > truly encapsulated environments. > > I have looked at the Xen information for freebsd and it appears to be > still a bit premature, as compared to NetBSD. > > Does anyone have any good resources or advice on how to begin > implementing true-vps functionality using FreeBSD as a host? > > I am still researching what work has been completed on Xen-freebsd > port, and am actually new to researching Xen in general, so any help > would be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, for any input. > Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I think you're where I was at a while ago, and a little investigation will change your mind. FWIW Xen is a hypervisor, and platforms need to be able to run in it, not the other way around. Have a read up on it anyway. What you want I think is something like VirtualBox- comparatively slower, but about the best for what it is. The only other in the same league as VBox is linux-kvm (6:7 between them). But if you don't mind not having FreeBSD as host then Xen is definitely rated better. I'm just not as sure on stability and such, so I've swung away from it. HTH