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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2023 15:47:21 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: State of virtualization on FreeBSD
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On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:00 PM Steven Friedrich <
freebsdlouisville@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to virtualization on FreeBSD and trying to figure out the best
> solution for my use case.
>
> I am running a workstation and hoping to ditch multi-booting several
> partitions of FreeBSD, Linux Minst, KDE Neon, etc.
>
> I only have a single hard drive (6TB), so root-on-zfs is ok, though I am
> perplexed by zfs complexity.  I have no intention of offering commercial
> virtualization.  I just want to audit OSes.
>
> I have watched P03A: Xen HVMlite and FreeBSD - Roger Pau Monné on
> YouTube, but I have a hard time viewing and hearing the presentation.
> Is there a written version of this presentation with slides available?
>
> There has been a lot of development of virtualization since this
> presentation.  Are there newer presentations of each virtualization
> solution?
>
> Why would I choose bhyve over Xen?
>

Following!

I have always been interested in playing with bhyve, but never got a good
HOWTO for dummies :-)



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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
[How to ask smart questions:
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:00 PM Steven Friedrich &lt;<a href="mailto:freebsdlouisville@gmail.com" target="_blank">freebsdlouisville@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am new to virtualization on FreeBSD and trying to figure out the best <br>
solution for my use case.<br>
<br>
I am running a workstation and hoping to ditch multi-booting several <br>
partitions of FreeBSD, Linux Minst, KDE Neon, etc.<br>
<br>
I only have a single hard drive (6TB), so root-on-zfs is ok, though I am <br>
perplexed by zfs complexity.  I have no intention of offering commercial <br>
virtualization.  I just want to audit OSes.<br>
<br>
I have watched P03A: Xen HVMlite and FreeBSD - Roger Pau Monné on <br>
YouTube, but I have a hard time viewing and hearing the presentation.  <br>
Is there a written version of this presentation with slides available?<br>
<br>
There has been a lot of development of virtualization since this <br>
presentation.  Are there newer presentations of each virtualization <br>
solution?<br>
<br>
Why would I choose bhyve over Xen?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Following!</div><div><br></div><div>I have always been interested in playing with bhyve, but never got a good HOWTO for dummies :-)</div><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223<br>&quot;<span style="font-size:12.8px">Oh, the cruft.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">&quot;, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">egrep -v &#39;^$|^.*#&#39; </span><span style="background-color:rgb(34,34,34);color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,Consolas,&quot;Courier New&quot;,monospace;font-size:13.6px">¯\_(ツ)_/¯</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> :-)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">[How to ask smart questions: </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</a>]</span></div></div></div></div></div>;

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