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Subject: Re: Virtualizing FreeBSD...
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:34:34 -0500
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We moved from VMWare to Xen. Xen has a lot of momentum behind it --
Citrix is on board to get FreeBSD the best support possible. It's
actively hacked on in HEAD. We run 9.1-RELEASE with a XENHVM kernel
without any major issues. All of our VMWare crashes have gone away.