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On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:43:06 +0200, 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.
>
> 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!
>
> cheers,
>
> -pete.

Hi,

It helps if you tell people what you are looking for.
- realtime moving of guests between host-servers?
- do you really need separate OS'es or would jails serve your purposes?
- Are you only going to run FreeBSD on FreeBSD or also Linux or Windows on  
FreeBSD?
- ... etc.

Ronald.