From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 16:44:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F231116A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:44:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9470043D54 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:44:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3CGidfQ007106; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3CGid40013324; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.3/8.12.9/Submit) id j3CGid7i013259; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200504121644.j3CGid7i013259@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20050412161629.GA12421@sysmon.tcworks.net> To: Scott Lambert Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Copyright0: Copyright 2005 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:44:41 -0000 Scott Lambert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:05:00AM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > > I run FreeBSD as my main desktop, but occasionally have to develop, > > build, or test software on a variety of other x86 operating systems > > (mainly Windows NT 4, Windows XP Pro, and Red Hat Linux). At the > > moment I have a row of mini-towers and a KVM switch. I'd much rather > > run these other machines as virtual machines under FreeBSD. Can > > anyone recommend virtualizing software for FreeBSD? I don't mind > > having to pay, as long as it really works. > > I have not used it, but it claims to support FreeBSD as the host: > > http://www.serenityvirtual.com/ > > I have had a good relationship with the company that is behind the > product. I just haven't used that particular product, especially now > that my primary workstation is a PowerBook. Note that SVISTA doesn't (currently) support 5-stable, or indeed anything past 4.x. There have been questions asked about that in the fora but they have gone unanswered, last I checked. I bought it for 4.x and it worked fine. Better in some ways than qemu, although in other ways it was not as good (qemu seems to have better display support, while SVISTA's networking is vastly better). Since I've gone to 5-stable, though, qemu is my only real alternative. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/