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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:49:27 +0100 (CET)
From:      "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net>
To:        Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Virtualization
Message-ID:  <20071031044133.L1570@small>
In-Reply-To: <47272BAE.5020007@chrononomicon.com>
References:  <47272BAE.5020007@chrononomicon.com>

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> I was curious with the information coming out regarding FreeBSD 7 what option 
> are available for virtualizing other OS's using FreeBSD as a host.
>
> I've been running several servers (Windows of various versions and a Linux 
> system) as virtual machines under VMWare Server for Linux for about a year 
> now.  I remember there were some problems with trying to get FreeBSD to run 
> VMWare previously?
>
> Is anyone virtualizing systems using a FreeBSD host, and if so what are you 
> using?  Or is FreeBSD primarily just useful for being a virtual guest if it 
> isn't on the physical machine?
I can recommend emulators/qemu . It isn't really fast, but 
stable. A good choice to test software or network setups, runs 
(o.k. "strolls along") on i386 and amd64.

Greetings,

Uli.


Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany




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