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Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD
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On 7/5/2012 21:27, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> They come (or came, last time I looked) with a lot of
> run-time dependencies and even more at build-time.
> And AFAIK, they don't offer the full functionality either.

There is a number of dependencies, but as far as I know it isn't missing 
anything: memory driver, OS control (ie; shutdown), etc.

I manage dozens of FreeBSD VMs under ESXi 3.5, 4.x and 5.0 ... most of 
them using OpenVM tools (ie; the 9.x hosts), works great.


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