From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 22:39:24 2011 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 3C44A1065679 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:39:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbiquez@intranet.com.mx) Received: from intranet.com.mx (intranet.com.mx [200.33.246.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1694E8FC17 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from PC2.intranet.com.mx (189.144.47.109) by intranet.com.mx with ESMTP (EIMS X 3.3.9) for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:40:22 -0500 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:38:57 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jorge Biquez Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-ID: <3401304023-313529491@intranet.com.mx> Subject: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI 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: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:39:24 -0000 Hello all. I hope this question does not sound too stupid. I am sorry in advance if you think so. Since version 2.x and until now all I have been using FreeBsd as a server, helping a small ISP company of a friend , basic web services, email, dns etc. All I have been doing has been done in the text interface, the pure shell. In fact, I have to confess that I have never tried any of the GUIs available. For some reasons not important to mention I need to have a server that can virtualize some other OS's (Linux, Freebsd and Windows). This will be used as a lab for some personal projects. Of course I thought to have as the base FreeBsd Version 8.2 and have the virtual machines running inside, was wondering if Virtualbox runs fine there. The virtual machines need to be used with their graphical interface (Gnome , Kde and windows). So I guess that the best and need is to have a graphical interface also running with the base (FreeBsd 8.2). Is that correct? If so, here are some questions: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. If I do not need necessarily a GUI running with FreeBSD, what do you suggest to use? I have to mention that I have done the first phase of my testing using XP and inside of it running VirtualBox with FreeBsd and Linux distros without problems... BUT... OF COURSE even with the firewall, antivirus , latest patches and all the protection schema, yesterday the antivirus start telling the machine has virus and seems it was comprmised, of course I can not continue using it and it was not the idea to have that, but for the 3 dyas of testing what I need to do was enough. By the way the hardware I will use I guess it is enough since it is for testing only and I won't be connected remotely all the time. The machine is an "old" Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2GB of ram (its maximum) and a hard disk of 500gb, also it has an Nvdia card 256Mb (can use the one with the motherboard if that is a problem) The motherboard is an INtel one. It runs perectly FreeBSD using it in text mode. As a curios information something in the motherboard maybe is not compatible with UBuntu . As always thanks in advance for your comments and your time. Jorge Biquez