From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 12:53:26 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 1678C106564A for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com (mail-qa0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87F38FC1B for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qaat11 with SMTP id t11so3878883qaa.13 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:53:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date:to :x-gm-message-state; bh=lKfvyAwueu+RGsDTRhSSrWieXnfGT8VaQv1pB/kOT+g=; b=hnarEKLm4Wi8kSlfYO71+pkFSMBiEx9lZVdbcHMFhRq4C9h9jwIgMlE0HWcpUYV9zt QRJQWkuIPpWMTOENTq08zpzjW/H7NxLvzVj3e23vwb1SRG04RW3qci1Hn3UGXch1pBLY PvhC+ydIgGGiEjaPxZu3rgq2mw9ayOWl/sPSD53BEzImxNtlhr86wL3OG2nFh+I6oN+8 zA9gBPP1+XJmoSL+ofaOSXnh5pBpUn0fqkwzbAfBCVY2Lyaayxkj1kd7BDedbgAqrTw9 fyiB2SOduwqbYwpJT3DfkyUXYs7b2SnoiMfAMr+6TPDc6Tn8fKLsL2+gI1WMQMGWwLIq nG2A== Received: by 10.224.0.202 with SMTP id 10mr24008628qac.5.1341492804140; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [97.250.193.93] (93.sub-97-250-193.myvzw.com. [97.250.193.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f14sm24483902qak.20.2012.07.05.05.53.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:53:23 -0700 (PDT) References: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> In-Reply-To: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <3B5B612A-41C6-45AC-8FE0-104415B51346@longcount.org> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9B206) From: Mark Saad Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:53:19 -0400 To: Rainer Duffner X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk+Hqa8wstM/zPsXTlCSPRQMCTcJ50J3p8kn8ntdsHkkVE5w6omvUpK873OM0O9203DJbGf Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , Pete French 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 12:53:26 -0000 On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 > schrieb Pete French : >=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"