From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 30 10:57:13 2015 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 CC97C9AE76E for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:57:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 743351C0D for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:57:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id t6UAvAd4030370 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:57:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id t6UAvAuO030367; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:57:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:57:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Kyle cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:57:11 -0600 (MDT) 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: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:57:13 -0000 On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Kyle wrote: > > I've recently installed FreeBSD on my home server to replace my linux install > after getting frustrated with some of the newer software. > > I'll prefix this question by saying I really like FreeBSD much better so far, > except for the following. > > One thing I really liked about my previous system was KVM, Linux's > kernel-supported virtualization. It always worked really well. > > I've been trying VirtualBox, QEMU, and bhyve with FreeBSD as a host, but none > of them seem to work anywhere near as well as the KVM on Linux. > > VirtualBox seemed to have issues with the networking. In what way? It has worked pretty well for me. I generally use NAT unless PXE-booting a VM, then use bridged networking. The PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A) works for either, the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM) also works well but I think I added the adapter PXE code because it was not included. There are instructions for this somewhere, but it's not really needed because the first adapter can be used.