Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:21:43 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <589E6EDB-9250-4AEE-9F8F-92A7386C261E@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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On Jul 5, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote: > So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement to > see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised servers. > I have not done this before personally, but I notice from post here > that it doesnt seem uncommon, and I see Xen related commits flowing > past, so I am guessing it is doable. >=20 > So, for running 8 or 9 STABLE can anyone recommend which hypervisor > works best, and is 8 or 9 better as the OS to run ? Am doing a bit > of research myself, but nothing beats persoanl experience in these > matters! >=20 > cheers, >=20 > -pete. > ____________________________ Pete=20 I am using VMware esxi v4.01 with no issues for 6, 7, 8 and 9 . Esxi will h= appily host amd64 installs and i386 provider the underlying hardware support= s it. The older esx 3.5 works as well on 32bit hardware but I am no longer u= sing it. Also I use virtualbox 4 hosted on a Mac and a 9-stable amd64 box wi= th little issue . --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org
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