From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 12:21:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B9D106566B for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:21:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F4F8FC08 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:21:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qabg1 with SMTP id g1so3858157qab.13 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:21:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=subject:references:from:content-type:x-mailer:in-reply-to :message-id:date:to:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :x-gm-message-state; bh=5EbB1QLmi5cI2OMQkfcnqTGLlBMlflGF0v0GoqgFeOw=; b=Cj+qdAAQrOQKWLS0BpdswPAUS0PBUBA1+NMdDYjL+yksL5QCkqxbzaxjSlWLTXR99I eBO5PJjKS1ahkcESGEt2xyw0S+WScOs/Z5NB4qiszQKnuIH92IXPnOImciFxNsdggPwZ LzN09Ej3Bt3sCxNAqqyn4OIMtKjrFgKrD6Q+XWe9oD0vdjBcTrwU9pk6Io8QvHB6LDBA JkMP2xo59cIh3aQdfQQD3MRdl0Q9XDuIqTK7leuPxOT3HHg4DlfLSbnR7c+nuDv+DE3A 64i76qPe1+Gv5Pf9hI+V1R64ewGG5FbzOvZn8PuCMseNwNG7jIJA89j0C9KKPjFKi+i5 mfmw== Received: by 10.224.217.7 with SMTP id hk7mr7594755qab.9.1341490911197; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [97.14.16.84] (84.sub-97-14-16.myvzw.com. [97.14.16.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bh13sm45904829qab.21.2012.07.05.05.21.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:21:50 -0700 (PDT) References: From: Mark Saad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9B206) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <589E6EDB-9250-4AEE-9F8F-92A7386C261E@longcount.org> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:21:43 -0400 To: "stable@freebsd.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQncn3KUhCv8l0UODEyuVkQQl34foM2tfuVookgbbvJLx35A2cS82uhAN5FsK0vGZ/n3E36Z Cc: Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:21:52 -0000 On Jul 5, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Pete French 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