From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 14:58:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F439106566B for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:58:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) Received: from mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [62.119.52.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355FF8FC08 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vnode.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AC2E3F07A; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:58:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vnode.se Received: from mail.vnode.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id U6rcn47d7ra2; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from goofy01.vnodelab.local (jd.benders.se [212.247.52.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7893DE3F079; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:58:06 +0200 From: Joel Dahl To: Mark Felder Message-ID: <20120705145806.GM26121@goofy01.vnodelab.local> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 14:58:15 -0000 On 05-07-2012 9:05, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 06:43:06 -0500, Pete French > 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