Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:53:51 +0200 From: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hypervisor ( was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? ) Message-ID: <20120629125351.00000c76@unknown> In-Reply-To: <E1SkXv6-0003Yp-TW@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <20120629115005.00005820@unknown> <E1SkXv6-0003Yp-TW@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:55:20 +0100 Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote: > > - Lack of proper support for a decent hypervisor for > > virtualisation. We can't make a hypervisor out of freebsd, if there > > are no such virtualisations available like XEN, kvm or something > > similar, that just works out of the box. > > What do you need that VirtualBox doesn't provide ? I used to bemoan > the lack of a hypervisor too, but vince VBox arrived in FreeBSD I > have had no complaints. I use it to run Windows instances both as > desktop clients and also servers, and it works beautifully. Combined > with a ZVOL underneath (and hence all the delights of ZFS snapshots) > it';s a great solution. Yes, virtualbox is not that bad. However, to get some really nice features, you need the non-free version. Also, we can use citrix's xenserver's management tool to manage non-citrix xen clusters, because the API is same. With that we get a management tool for our clusters, which is really nice. Also I didn't know that virtualbox is capable of building clusters of nodes and bouncing VMs among nodes to balance load, and capable of doing such things, i might be lacking a bit here, sorry. > > -pete. >
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