From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 01:26:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59EF106566B for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:26:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@mawer.org) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778608FC0A for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so4290971vbm.13 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:26:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:x-google-sender-delegation:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=aV2mTL8t5MvldboQq2IQGeONUdiguxmm3HTh5NwqvJ0=; b=n6ltyhxI+XbPHBYCbeyGDr2xYuiCQDe92ZpXg1e4wz4asLBQG2vuUaXURI/WI1/7h1 Q9DIfayZK9yg5+LmbAlsqNswDU7SYL/+gRQIPKsdcPcpwkivU0bvI7fqPhej8fiRCtfB 2hu3a3R1KqkupBIsddA3sHXqXDxaSvHMX731lPEGNywrpJGuOkaZVe6hnLBlcA0gIhAd /muvxLShF/edP2f8j0kln+Vn3G4K4kQSBw6qQMa8NjmZ1UYobtCYoIdqTDjAO9yTai0Z GIyoFxLO8ETrh2VRV2Al9KW+bjDt5QQCR9tElPpOapfYDfOGiD9XhTdy7s2Go5O7p8Aq aH0g== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.89.35 with SMTP id bl3mr5397092vdb.106.1342833967736; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: antony@mawer.org X-Google-Sender-Delegation: antony@mawer.org Received: by 10.52.181.194 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:26:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> References: <20120705144314.64920e62@suse2.ip-tech.ch> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:26:07 +1000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: kszNIGYq8zYZZuYO8u-SCJ-Ph3w Message-ID: From: Antony Mawer To: Rainer Duffner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm9Z+k6xaa0DcTt2bp+5Xi6tKCJI67uEat8Tp0iSwswfTYTVYj6hdhORhTn0X/YchoH4GFf Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Pete French Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:26:08 -0000 On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 > schrieb Pete French : > >> So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement >> to see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised >> servers. I have not done this before personally, but I notice from >> post here that it doesnt seem uncommon, and I see Xen related commits >> flowing past, so I am guessing it is doable. >> >> So, for running 8 or 9 STABLE can anyone recommend which hypervisor >> works best, and is 8 or 9 better as the OS to run ? Am doing a bit >> of research myself, but nothing beats persoanl experience in these >> matters! > > > > AFAIK, there are no VMware-tools for FreeBSD9 (yet). > So, if you need to use ESXi/vSphere, then stay with 8.3 for the time > being. We have had a lot of success and good performance deploying under ESXi - often without the VM tools package installed. > Also, full, native support for MSFT-HyperV is coming to FreeBSD9. Isn't this supposed to be on 8.2 and 8.3 as well (per the official announcement)? I am awaiting further announcement on this as I have a lot of our clients / prospective clients who run HyperV environments who want to deploy on this. Last time we tried on 8.1 the OS would crash with memory corruption errors, which happened across multiple test systems... http://blogs.technet.com/b/openness/archive/2012/05/10/freebsd-support-on-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx -- Antony