Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:31:08 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host Message-ID: <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de> References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> <20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de>
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On 23/08/2010 2:26 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 12:39:14PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > > >> Win 7 is a lot better than Vista... >> >>> Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance? >>> >>> >> Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble. >> VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some >> kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host is also FreeBSD!) >> Have not tried very recent versions though, it may have improved. >> > Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live > CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current > system. Any objectives with this? Thx > > matthias > This should work nicely. In fact, in one of my recent projects I did the exact opposite with great success: I installed and configured a full system on Vmware Workstation, dumped the partitions and restored on real hardware. Saved me countless hours and had the school lab running in less than a day.
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