From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Apr 6 19:18:49 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33902B046B8 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1497D1474 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 10324B046B5; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB5BB046B2 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: from mail-io0-x243.google.com (mail-io0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D89741472 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:18:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: by mail-io0-x243.google.com with SMTP id z133so8799085iod.1 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:18:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ara-ler-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=oc6NdISOsGCbSkckdfsyiWEH6OQpYk3OsNEoD7Bfia8=; b=X7dYdEi7LtHtxhNl0TbG8kaHJxfuICZCtBy5aV8p1bXo4ZUptrAmSKXdJMp/CfXgKi gOo8XW/wjYxhNJRIZSV7P1iEspObWlaPcDcStP2F1ij8dLge6Emloi9ma9rzSe69rxAL +IPxHkYyhR8qOync/+a3BmiycOcOAAcwKgAFMrWdJf0HJZbodD1q1lK18aoWIobF2QNH 3LQRt9TaNZbn25Nz6XUa38D8riaZGVCFECyQ7nRRHoHT44+ZocBUQP43xeNnxTyJF/ba Lq7feEA/yuenX1YGM6PUeRAREa1vsLb/6Yyhk/jeqs3M77iy1cP9rp5JcabT2O9C0PoC kXUg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=oc6NdISOsGCbSkckdfsyiWEH6OQpYk3OsNEoD7Bfia8=; b=hBKPJ6e9s4M5OCYFIhehCOtrIm32reGlEqOercdwL32BrDkIPffQP2q78ooe8iXOUq P+FhogbjW2/EiorD33MsJFUR4Kw2WNsxFGtC7FLg3McYyynwDSCHmtC6WqeiVltFY5i0 pZaWt+jlVCJ5I8wFmYpdcEIuUEunhT+UCBPZ+aYhQxpmFJfrcdxangxBDOXZk1fmlzPf rM7rFCbyYi2yhOKh8VwrkebJ5lwqgf4jzFG6qdajnW2QZxfCcoqOgv1LmsCdizYqHyj2 xwbLdBuj9yI3acVj8TdgNQkVpIXtY1G+4+ccbKORXjHnEsJU2lgj0pMjaVzqHwYE3H3n WbVA== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJJGJK9ohe20nmlueZt5sbP2FLBe1hWRhtUWEl1U6MRaruPLtywJ54deR7nIFL8DQA== X-Received: by 10.107.130.11 with SMTP id e11mr32311834iod.175.1459970327723; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.ara-ler.com ([50.243.135.133]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g67sm2042939ioe.34.2016.04.06.12.18.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 13:18:44 -0600 From: Sergey Manucharian To: Andrea Venturoli Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualizing Windows server Message-ID: <20160406191844.GI31492@debian.ara-ler.com> References: <570534A6.1070909@netfence.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <570534A6.1070909@netfence.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:18:49 -0000 Excerpts from Andrea Venturoli's message from Wed 06-Apr-16 18:09: > I know this question or a similar one has probably come up several times, > but I believe virtualization to be a moving target... > > I'm evaluating running a Windows 2012 virtual guest on a FreeBSD host. > > Anyone else is doing it? With VirtualBox? Is it stable enough? Is > performance acceptable? > Given enough hardware power, is this such a bad idea? > > Guess it isn't a "very good" idea, but in this situation I found no other > option that i fully like. > FreeBSD's native bhyve works fine for me for long time, I'm running Windows 2012 R2. https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows Sergey