Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:46:28 -0500
From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To: Michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: {Spam?} Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7
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At 10:37 PM 9/8/2008, Michael wrote:
>Derek Ragona wrote:
>>I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual
>>machines. What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines
>>under FreeBSD?
>>
>>I'd just like to here what has worked, or what has not worked. I find it
>>easier to find a solution asking for real world experiences.
>>
>>Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Derek
>> derek@computinginnovations.com
>>
>>
> >> In my honest opinion, there aren't many good ways of doing what I
> think you're wanting.
>VMware is a no go for now, or probably any time soon. I don't think
>virtualbox is running on freebsd yet. You could use jails, for just other
>freebsd installs, not really a VM so to speak.
>bochs is crap for this purpose, simics doesn't run on it worth a crap
>either. If I were you, I would use something else. say a hypervisor
>running on bare hardware, ie: VMware ESX, or similar. I would say xen if
>it was ready, but I don't think it is.
>
>Cheers Mate,
>
>Mike
Mike,
Thanks for the quick response. I had seen that there are a lot of
non-working virtual machine implementations. It seems a shame that as well
as FreeBSD runs there are no ways to run a VM on it.
-Derek
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