From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 08:56:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B51F106564A for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:56:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mihamina@rktmb.org) Received: from smtp-out.orange.net (out2.laposte.net [193.251.214.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3628FC15 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from meplus.info (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf6502.orange.lu (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 837DE380009B for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:56:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf6502.orange.lu (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 71DF938000C7 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:56:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (unknown [41.190.237.66]) by mwinf6502.orange.lu (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D635F380009B for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:56:17 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20110824085618877.D635F380009B@mwinf6502.orange.lu Message-ID: <4E54BCB0.70808@rktmb.org> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:56:16 +0300 From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110801 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4E549B5D.4080807@rktmb.org> <4E54B929.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E54B929.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-me-spamlevel: not-spam Subject: Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:56:22 -0000 On 08/24/2011 11:41 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Probably start by installing PC-BSD -- that's based on FreeBSD but > tailored to providing the sort of desktop environment you'ld want on a > laptop. I made search before posting and it also seems a good directoin to take. > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only works > with FreeBSD guests. That will be alright for experimenting FreeBSD and learning. Will I be able to jail a FreeBSD within a PC-BSD host? > There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest OSes > as a standard client application and it tends to be slow, Mmmh, even on Linux I dont really like VirtualBox. I'd rather KVM. > or there's > Xen, where dom0 support by FreeBSD is in the works, but probably not > good enough for production use yet. According to http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen, I think I could be able to use Xen for learning purpose. I used some Xen 3.0.x on Linux a long time ago then switched to KVM. What about http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/BSD? Some users in here? It's just to use a PCBSD as host, then virtualize some Linuxes or Windows for presentation purposes (not production). The FreeBSDs will be "jailed". > Running FreeBSD as a guest under most virtualization software works well > -- it's fine with Linux KVM for instance. Thank you. -- RMA.