Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:45:58 +1200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@x0.dk> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120705204558.GA2214@macbook.bluepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <E1SmkSg-0007no-UZ@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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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
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