From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 20:30:02 2008 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 1009B16A476 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3C013C46B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:29:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:78a3:8613:5a91:be1a] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:78a3:8613:5a91:be1a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8B030162; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47B35337.8060308@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:29:43 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vinicius Vianna References: <47B3146B.5070906@hacked.com.br> In-Reply-To: <47B3146B.5070906@hacked.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization using FreeBSD and AMD-V 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: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:30:02 -0000 Vinicius Vianna wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wanna setup a home server to make some lab work, in a simple way > just throw some different distributions and test they, like bsd > systems and linux/solaris also. > Currently I'm doing this running Xen on linux, but i wanna to use > FreeBSD to use pf and a more stable system. > So anyone used some kind of hardware-virtualization using the new amd > processors and amd-v? what software should I use? qemu is just too > slow for this work. > > > Thanks in advance, > Vinicius The only way I'm aware of to do this on FreeBSD is to use qemu with the lkvm module from http://feanor.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/ - I haven't had any success with it (qemu crashed shortly after starting) but it might just have not liked my amd64 installation. The other thing that has worked for me in the past is kqemu in ports - it enables qemu to run a /lot/ faster by running code natively instead of having to interpret each instruction. -- Bruce