Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:20:38 -0700 From: Diego Montalvo <dmontalvo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host Message-ID: <AANLkTinAfUNd5w5x%2BwKRp5QDg-g6%2BTBS9ht=NUnpDFYv@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinx6cSQ-dha3y%2BBFDiOTT_wsqaJ4fwHOgpt7YV2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> <20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de> <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr> <AANLkTinx6cSQ-dha3y%2BBFDiOTT_wsqaJ4fwHOgpt7YV2@mail.gmail.com>
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I use Win 7 64 bit - Virtual Box 3.2.6 r63112 with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE / Xfce installed in Virtual Box have not had any issues at all. Diego On 23 August 2010 07:18, Diego Arias <dak.col@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote= : > >> On 23/08/2010 2:26 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Matthias Apitz wrote: >> > El d=C3=ADa Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 12:39:14PM +0300, Manolis Ki= agias >> escribi=C3=B3: >> > >> > >> >> 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 li= ve >> > CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current >> > system. Any objectives with this? Thx >> > >> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 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 d= ay. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > > > Hi: > > I use Virtualbox =C2=A0for my desktop and have 1 VM =C2=A0running on Vsph= ere 4 > (FreeBSD 8). Only have problem once of data loss because i used ATA disk > instead of SCSI. > > > Diego Arias > -- > mmm, interesante..... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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