From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 11:48:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957C9106566B for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266438FC0C for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBEA0B.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.234.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p7OBmsxZ028440 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:55 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7OBmbR8003481 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7OBmUYo003209 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:36 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201108241148.p7OBmUYo003209@fire.js.berklix.net> to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200." <4E54D165.7090202@nagual.nl> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:30 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Subject: Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:57 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Dick Hoogendijk > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 > Message-id: <4E54D165.7090202@nagual.nl> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: > > > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > > There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only > > works with FreeBSD guests. There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest > > OSes as a standard client application and it tends to be slow > > VirtualBox is absolutely not slow. At least not on Solaris nor on > windows7 boxes. The VB support from FreeBSD is not that good imho. It is > a lot easier to get it going under linux, windows or solaris. I know, > fbsd packages do not exist. I wonder why... > > > Running FreeBSD as a guest under most virtualization software works well > > This is very true, I agree. I've set up a ZFS root system with four > disks lately to try out before doing so on rela hardware and it worked > very very well. I was reading I think it was nebsd-users@betbsd.org a few days back, quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, it seems NetBSD may have more support support there &/or with Xen. Best check for yourself though, I'm just a reader. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.