Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:58:06 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120705145806.GM26121@goofy01.vnodelab.local> In-Reply-To: <op.wgy733kc34t2sn@tech304> References: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <op.wgy733kc34t2sn@tech304>
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On 05-07-2012 9:05, Mark Felder wrote: > 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= This may also be of interest for people looking at VMware ESX: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31929 -- Joel
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