From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 03:46:48 2008 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 0DD271065680 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:46:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DAC8FC1D for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:46:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m893keLN064707; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:46:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080908224405.025edbf0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:46:28 -0500 To: Michael From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080908221910.025e3508@mail.computinginnovations.com> <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080908-0, 09/08/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8195/Mon Sep 8 16:18:48 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m893keLN064707 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: {Spam?} Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7 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: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:46:48 -0000 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.