Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:05:53 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <op.wgy733kc34t2sn@tech304> In-Reply-To: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 06:43:06 -0500, 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! > I can't recommend ESX at all. We are struggling to keep our FreeBSD servers from crashing. I can make them crash on demand just by stressing I/O and network at the same time. I have a PR regarding the issue, but no known fix yet. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168416&cat=
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