Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:25:17 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting plus Hyper-V Message-ID: <20150629092517.afec2a3e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <55905A0A.1070600@gmail.com> References: <55905A0A.1070600@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 15:33:14 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > After many years, I'm thinking of turning my beastie into a gaming box > plus home server. It's overpowered for my current use. I'm not sure > wine's up to the task for hassle free gaming. Well, wine is pretty much advanced nowadays. If wine is not sufficient, there's winex which is a special variation of wine intended for gaming use. I'm running several "Windows" games myself with wine, as well as Linux games on FreeBSD. No problems. :-) > I think the easiest thing > would be running Windows on it's own hard drive with FreeBSD running in > Hyper-V. That sounds like overhead... > I'd get a dedicated windows disk as well as the BSD disks. The idea with dedicated disks is very good. It will allow you to replace OS installations easily (at least with FreeBSD). But why not simply dual-boot from one of the disks? Either you select the boot disk in the BIOS menu (if available), or you install the FreeBSD boot manager on the boot disk and let it boot normally (FreeBSD) or to the "Windows" disk. This gives you the full advantage of using FreeBSD without the overhead and possible problems with a hypervisor. Furthermore, today's boot processes are _fast_, so switching from one to the other OS can be a thing of less than a minute. The only situation where this does not work is when you need to run both FreeBSD and "Windows" at the same time. Is that one of your requirements? > The system is all ZFS on GPT at the moment. Is this > practical or is are there other alternatives to consider? Native (OS-controlled) ZFS use or through a hypervisor? Hmmmm... As I mentioned, I would go with real dual-boot instead... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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