Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:43:14 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> In-Reply-To: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 schrieb Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>: > 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! AFAIK, there are no VMware-tools for FreeBSD9 (yet). So, if you need to use ESXi/vSphere, then stay with 8.3 for the time being. There are KVM-drivers for FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 in the ports. Also, full, native support for MSFT-HyperV is coming to FreeBSD9. I wouldn'd bother with the free VMware-server. AFAIK, the latest vcenter has a web-console, so you don't need a Windows VM just to manage your virtualized FreeBSD instances. Hopefully, someone else will have to do all the heavy-lifting of maintaining all the virtualization-infrastructure.
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