From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Feb 23 21:59:14 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 75551AB1A62 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggroth99@gmail.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 5B75C110B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggroth99@gmail.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 56AF8AB1A61; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:59:14 +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 3C5DCAB1A60 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggroth99@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qk0-x232.google.com (mail-qk0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::232]) (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 F24DF110A for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:59:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggroth99@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qk0-x232.google.com with SMTP id o6so74172079qkc.2 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:59:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=+Jv7GtW49Epn+u7AJFJCTrXeom1OeRh7momMmk36z/Q=; b=nLzclyiw360XmM98fk0Ry5x6h+FBLZJeSLinz5+G1ztfJWdzSYnvqTHCyrgQ8I08BU umzUiG6kp+e1I/iuAU8F9vVdzgjcol7WApu2n5UFDII/vN3IMkQw4Yhn1VEwTU+LH+B1 ybGrAl8rlQ35e/q1r6RoZJtg/j8xVpM6jFgF4Oj14yJVhZP9oj8kW7wJA/28xhSWZFRG bkUjeOh7oqccF03dep/jHtajxvzk8ttBA4l7vmkhBMZHR+PYKGOEUs1s1KpyrHlmTCLZ hD7IhS79R6RsjLwE2rP1d9tnZdMLB8gqo7GUI6VfLR8ROzu86/T/AnVu+6Y1WsdAvemy XH9g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=+Jv7GtW49Epn+u7AJFJCTrXeom1OeRh7momMmk36z/Q=; b=LgHKUrojQOi8D5EqPRJbuH6ulsp4CDrGO8LzmrWdBBBO3o6KVPzdMV1eGGhMC3Ee81 lfC7xZ1zm6wD0v8llH1sUuU2CCxiEsDNzDZ1SFUBiRzLevx0E0DMFDGDKyvvl2s5vWYl 58Qo9hgapp/cQRUAsO+HNO//pbRlFLQbxbK+NbWsr9WqJdakP9pByZCME9KzTRDy5nmS AFF6jLUhaBEEtjV0XJJDfVzKgPLxvDbHi5SFEsTqp4uM7UrdT5JlXazq9Gid/s9k6Eie ackfh31W8SqS2TnwWI/aYE4Oi/pBL4oBTxyIBJpyfAdXwZe47InH7tb22dFz85tURWVi +hhA== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOS//WeK8BC8CA3HaE4g0rBCfYDjsy5bHmQ+50FASdar0Fhah1PhVxc2AO7oXZjpwlIm0wmRqoIf2E08Cw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.55.77.216 with SMTP id a207mr44211134qkb.80.1456264753081; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.55.1.4 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:59:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:59:13 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: VM Options From: Greg Groth To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:59:14 -0000 I'm looking to repurpose an older HP G6 and an older G7 server, and an HP MSA with 8 TB of storage as VM hosts for VM guests consisting of Windows 2012 R2 development servers, and non-mission critical FreeBSD 10.2 servers. We're using VMware for all of our production servers, but I don't want to purchase additional licenses for this purpose. I'd love to use FreeBSD for the hosts, but am unsure if the hardware will pose any issues. I'm guessing that since ESX had no issues that FreeBSD should be OK in this day and age. If the hardware is OK, should I be looking at bhyve, KVM or VirtualBox? The only issue I can think of that might sway the choice from one to another would be that while I'm comfortable with setting up config files from the command line, a GUI would be nice to allow people other than myself something to monitor the install. Any comments / thoughts / advice on this project would be most appreciated. Best regards, Greg Groth