From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 05:33:19 2009 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 191D4106566B for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:33:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE788FC0C for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1234589596; l=527; s=domk; d=laverenz.de; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References: Subject:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH: DomainKey-Signature; bh=h2Hww46H71IqDhbG0PVLQSiD/n/axpTgxGE3sqOdZbk=; b=dZvxZOUdxzBTm6q8pPrbFazyBBMUErGwXGKm9GRgvUo3q6Sv6i4pptxidAfr/1QV58s E95pb+cWJktM+X6RLuTfh6b5Ss25ZsqzL3rQjvQsaYsxpvNRuiqaVcKIPpg46amJ7svvE O9xUwyxTfHUJ/3PGfad65C7x6D79DCba21g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; s=domk; d=laverenz.de; c=nofws; q=dns; h=X-RZG-AUTH:X-RZG-CLASS-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=pZtzbYIzj9xQPfH16Wdp7Ty6qMyyT72OijEvuUhMUzV623y9dYAEhxJGLTJvPqSLGBH U73DSOnIzc05st4zdy6lZ7d/g/wmrQrC7JiUXWqzm/VYUtXtt8SkjGBXUTB8p4mOFvHf9 IG+m99E6TzwtmL7ClOY4fKWqsp9ZROAW22c= X-RZG-AUTH: :LWgJfE6Id/4Sm/WkdV0gEbKL+/p/UjmosA/b4BPf1Ida/LA6f2WjvdsA X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from athena.laverenz.de (77-22-194-90-dynip.superkabel.de [77.22.194.90]) by post.strato.de (fruni mo12) (RZmta 18.18) with ESMTP id N00441l1E4TCIQ for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:33:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B15127BF1 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:29:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25564-03-2 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:29:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [192.168.23.142]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200C3127BDC for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:29:44 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4996579D.5060704@laverenz.de> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:33:17 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <49979AE7.6050606@missionaccess.org> In-Reply-To: <49979AE7.6050606@missionaccess.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Subject: Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS 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: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:33:19 -0000 Bobby Walker schrieb: > So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest > OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? If it has to run on top of W2K3 server I would suggest VMware server 2.0 which can be used for free (as in free beer). Don't expect it to deliver high performance, but it should be fine for a small duty server. Another option would be VirtualBox (free for private use) but there have been serious problems with freebsd guests in the past. bye, Uwe