From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 29 19:19:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520C5DDE for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:19:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rasmus@postboks.org) Received: from smtp.easyisp.no (smtp.easyisp.no [IPv6:2a02:1660:4104:2b:62:50:189:4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0CF2A2A for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2a02:1660:4001:c000:4504:c5e8:2b3b:f60d] (unknown [IPv6:2a02:1660:4001:c000:4504:c5e8:2b3b:f60d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.easyisp.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8EB012FB43 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:19:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51F6C03A.3050508@postboks.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:19:22 +0200 From: Rasmus Fauske User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualizing FreeBSD... References: <91400827-DCA1-4B2F-AC6F-3287E0C85600@gmail.com> <1375125021.26149.2939727.6C668A92@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1375125021.26149.2939727.6C668A92@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:19:25 -0000 Den 29.07.2013 21:10, skrev Mark Felder: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 13:51, Florian Heigl wrote: >> - VMWare ESXi >> This is what I have also tried. I'm quite sure I have had the >> e1000/vmxnet autoswitching working fine and the overall experience was >> just fine. >> No bugs, no troubles. >> The platform is perfectly robust and plays nice with FreeBSD (what I'm >> trying to say: You can completely skip worrying about platform issues) >> > I completely disagree. I've even started a ridiculously long thread > about FreeBSD's nonstop crashing on VMWare ESXi. We moved to entirely > new hardware, rebuilt the VMs from scratch, new SANs, different ESXi > versions, etc. Never fixed it. VMWare kept saying "not a bug" and > refused to support FreeBSD, even though they claim to. > I have been running FreeBSD on several ESXi setups and have never had any other problem then not so speedy io. No crashes or anything. What problems did you have ? -- RF