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From: Hugo Lombard <hal@elizium.za.net>
To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
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Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:12:14PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
> 
> 1) I don't use FreeBSD for virtualization as the host OS. I really want
> to, becaus I want to be able to somewhat trust the kernel hosting my
> virtual machines. FreeBSD technology, support, and documentation for
> this idea appears unavailable. 
> 

Perhaps the BSD Hypervisor (BHyVe) might be of interest?

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe

A caveat:

  "BHyVe requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and NPT support. These features
   are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g. SandyBridge), but not on
   the lower-end Atom CPUs."

-- 
Hugo Lombard