From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 02:30:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5537A16A418 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd001@freeode.co.uk) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (mail.freeode.co.uk [87.127.24.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF54813C481 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:30:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd001@freeode.co.uk) Received: from turion.freeode.co.uk (turion.freeode.co.uk [10.10.10.7]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA129LLx006663 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:09:21 GMT (envelope-from freebsd001@freeode.co.uk) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:09:20 +0000 From: John Murphy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071101020920.0eda4dd1@turion.freeode.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <47272BAE.5020007@chrononomicon.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Virtualization X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:30:02 -0000 On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:57:20 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: > 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. > > Extremely limited. > > > 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? > > It's possible some early VMWare products (Like VMWare Workstation 3) > work on FreeBSD 7, but a) you can't buy that products any more and b) > you probably wouldn't want to use them even if you did. > > The only approximately useful option is Qemu, but it's slow and may not > work on AMD64. > > There's a donation box on > http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html for developers to get > VMWare Workstation working on FreeBSD but the status of the project is > unknown. There's also some indication someone is working on VirtualBox > but that's probably in very early stages (and besides that, VirtualBox > doesn't work reliably). > The status seems to be "Status: CLAIMED by Orlando Bassotto - currently in progress." which looks good because he did a lot of work on porting VMware 3.x I think. I found a clue to a cure, but qemu was dropping cores when I tried it recently. Tried bochs too; I quite like it. I also installed qemu-launcher, but haven't tried it partly because it seems to be missing qemuctl and I can't even even extract files from the Linux tar.gz . -- Thanks, John.