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From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@x0.dk>
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Pete French (petefrench) writes:
> 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!

	Have been running FreeBSD in production as a hypervisor and a guest
	under VirtualBox for a couple of years now.

	Am also running it under Ganeti/XEN and Ganeti/KVM with success.

	Note other comments in the thread about virtio. Setting KVM to use
	"native" io also helps quite a bit.

	Cheers,
	Phil