Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:41:21 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd as a virtualbox HOST Message-ID: <CALfReyfLpOpynu7PF7r%2BrpwpTWnm5FZF_x_Qp67vbHWSYforLw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <533D22B6.6050107@cloverinformatica.it> References: <CALfReyeGww9tQ6w7U9iZ-rOH7_eiEJyr2EOOmhPSWwuxC9-UBg@mail.gmail.com> <533D22B6.6050107@cloverinformatica.it>
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cool thankyou all for the feedback. wikis are great but they often dont give you a view of the real world as opposed to the theoretical one The box id be running it has 32GB ram so a reasonable amount. A lot of the services I run should be able to fall back to jails, its only really going to need a few windows bits and a unbuntu VM for the bitcasa/dropbox syncing On 3 April 2014 09:58, Maurizio Vairani < maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it> wrote: > On 02/04/2014 16:28, krad wrote: > >> I'm currently running a set of vms on top of solaris 11 and virtualbox. As >> a lot of them are freebsd im thinking I might get better overall >> performance in converting the host OS to freebsd and then running vbox on >> it for the leftover linux and windows vms. >> >> There is scant information out there about freebsd as a host/hypervisor, >> as >> its not officially supported. Does it perform well/bad? Is it stable or >> flakey? Are there any decent resources I havent found yet? >> >> Before anyone asks all my data pools are v28 so importing should be ok >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > I am running FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE as a VirtualBox host with three Windows 7 > VM from February 2013. > The FreeBSD server has an Intel i7 with 64 GB RAM. The server and the VMs > are very, very stable. > I am writing this mail in a Windows 7 VM via Mac OS X Remote Desktop and > seems to work on real PC. > The only real, unique issue is the VM clock drift: it is slow, very slow > and I need to synchronize it every 5 minutes. > In the log I can read from +105ms to +50,43s as adjustment. > > Regards > Maurizio >
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