Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:53:19 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B5B612A-41C6-45AC-8FE0-104415B51346@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> References: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch>
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On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote: > Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 > schrieb Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>: >=20 >> 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 >=20 >=20 > 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. You can use the open-vmtools package which is in ports . > There are KVM-drivers for FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 in the ports. >=20 > Also, full, native support for MSFT-HyperV is coming to FreeBSD9. >=20 > I wouldn'd bother with the free VMware-server. Agree here it's very slow compared to all of the others .=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 VMware with vsphere server , another product , seperate from esxi, provides a= web based console but I still use the windows desktop tool , as it works mo= re consistently then the web tool. =20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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