Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:20:51 -0800 From: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> To: James Seward <jamesoff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS? Message-ID: <4586CDF3.6050709@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: <720051dc0612180832y28d3d545qa6bebdb7feea990f@mail.gmail.com> References: <4586ADC2.9030807@networktest.com> <720051dc0612180832y28d3d545qa6bebdb7feea990f@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/06 8:32 AM, James Seward wrote: > On 12/18/06, David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> wrote: >> "You really need <some other OS> as the host OS" is a perfectly valid >> response too. > > I run VMware Server on Ubuntu (one of the supported Linux host > flavours, and the only one I'm prepared to put up with), hosting > currently two Windows Server 2003 and two FreeBSD 6.x VMs on a Dell > 1855 blade. While I haven't performed any benchmarks (benchmarks > inside a VM are tricky to get right) I can report no noticable > performance problems with the workload the machines have to handle. > > The Windows machines are a small fileserver and a WSUS server; the > FreeBSD machines are performing spam-assassination and NFS serving. > > vmware1$ uptime > 16:27:45 up 66 days, 5:17, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.56, 0.54 > > I have a FreeBSD-based PXE server running in Workstation 5.5 on my > desktop, and > have had success running FreeBSD 4.x under ESX Server 2.5.x in a > previous life. > Thanks very much. I too have run FreeBSD as a guest OS under various VMware flavors for years. My question is whether FreeBSD is a suitable _host_ OS for any virtual machine environment, preferably with support for SMP, amd64, and guest OS speed at or close to native hardware speeds. Thanks again! dn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFhs3zyPxGVjntI4IRAnPAAKDxgpRIKN+s0anO6Ct8MOdf86Kh6ACeN0N+ 6qknCmjZWaC0KSeRW0W2SsI= =HIuy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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