From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 8 01:04:34 2010 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 8D941106566B for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350A78FC0A for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:04:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D7A3A38B6; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:04:26 +0700 (ICT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= references:subject:subject:in-reply-to:from:from:message-id:date :date:received:received:received; s=selector1; t=1278551066; x= 1280365466; bh=fgd28WAW4wzCt10dnUWuyGoagrtNvxMAMG2n29/XGJw=; b=Y 6GOYua/F4+S9XkVYQSv2KfZZXPBEJITKa8a/RGJp6EdtUa0NY8mIzNFECj/aXNL7 gPundDrHiJQYgourIErb+X+1ZrtAIAzlLQ1MzlAmd/YR4FSJuFlkADZSBHUPjOfE 22G/m7sR7RQqToKC+NJQTUxQAPfiK0E/vkcjYU+wEY= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id AtNIqijVLd-q; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:04:26 +0700 (ICT) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35FF13A38B5; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:04:26 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o6814IM8001316; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:04:18 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:04:18 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <201007080104.o6814IM8001316@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: pobox@verysmall.org In-reply-to: <8F676AEB-5188-4F41-A971-C68293AD54F3@verysmall.org> (message from Iv Ray on Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:00:48 +0200) References: <6AC0293D-2262-4E5C-9616-516B49664FBF@verysmall.org> <201007071111.o67BBnr5093119@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <8F676AEB-5188-4F41-A971-C68293AD54F3@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something? 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: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:04:34 -0000 > > What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware > > This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and free. That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more wide spread. > > What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended > > for your application, what resources you have available around you, > > etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well > > supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent > > knwoledge of ubuntu. > > I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and I resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on bare metal and virtualize simple installations of the "unpleasant" legacy OSes without making my fingers too dirty. You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are installing any OS on a virtual machine, it is as dirty as installing on a bare hardware: you need to learn how to install, tune and secure that new OS... Good luck, olivier