From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 23:16:43 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 067E01065678 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1B88FC16 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywo32 with SMTP id 32so1484229ywo.13 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.137.6 with SMTP id p6mr35000ybn.264.1314227801990; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papi.localnet ([186.212.135.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p7sm101394ybd.27.2011.08.24.16.16.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:16:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:16:36 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.6.2; amd64; ; ) References: <201108241148.p7OBmUYo003209@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201108241148.p7OBmUYo003209@fire.js.berklix.net> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201108242016.37102.lobo@bsd.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 23:16:43 -0000 On Wednesday 24 August 2011 08:48:30 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > 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... > > I don't know how you guys have been installing Virtualbox on FreeBSD but I have been using it since 3.x.x, Always compiling it from ports (using 4.1.2 now), almost without glitch. The "almost" is on account of a long gone bug with nvidia driver versions 1.7.something. Nothing to do with VB. After that, no glitches anymore. As how it runs on my 8-STABLE amd64, I've been able to compare it to vmware and hiper-v and as far as running the same things on the 3 of them, to me, VBox outperformed both in terms of speed and responsiveness. All 3 are pretty stable and hiper-v needs a monster machine to run, contrary to VB and VW. I have linux (fedora, centos and ubuntu), OS-x (hackintosh and SL), Os/2, Android, Xp (32/64),Win 2003 and win7 (32/64) vms, all jumping from VB version to VB version, all without a single glitch, and all performing better with each new version. I went as far as installing a background VB Xp vm on my firewall (which is a small FBSD 8-STABLE i386 ) for application testing purposes. I can't say how VB runs on huge environments because I don't have access to any. As for support for VB in general, just stay tunned to VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community and vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev and http://forums.virtualbox.org/ I'm sure anyone will find all questions answered. and specific to FreeBSD. Bernhard Froehlich has been doing a wonderful job, constantly updating the VB ports. Check out https://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports under emulators. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)