From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 08:31:38 2010 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 8510C1065673 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D08F8FC0A for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6009F5E18C; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:11:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.878 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.878 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.183, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, SPF_PASS=-0.001] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id NwgkEyMe+xsf; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:10:55 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.139] (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72D25E1A6; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C722D71.3090606@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:12:33 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host 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: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:31:38 -0000 Matthias Apitz skrev 2010-08-23 09:08: > > Hello, > > I've to re-install my laptop with some Windows version (Vista or Windows > 7) with disk encryption. Of course I will go on to work in FreeBSD > 9-CURRENT and KDE3 as desktop. Please, don't ask me why I have to put Windows below :-) > > I have some questions: > >> From the point of view of performance in FreeBSD, what would be better, Vista or > Win7? Win7 has much better performance. > > Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance? > I'm having a dualboot machine, win7 freebsd 8.0, and on top of freebsd I use VirtualBox for virtualisation. /Leslie > Is there any tool in the ports to benchmark the disk i/o performance and > compare the situation between now (FreeBSD native) and later (FreeBSD in > a VM)? > > Thanks in advance > > matthias