From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 09:17:20 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 190911065670 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@pcjas.obspm.fr) Received: from blade2-ext.obspm.fr (blade2-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63CB8FC0A for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@pcjas.obspm.fr) Received: from pcjas.obspm.fr (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.233]) by blade2-ext.obspm.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/SIO Observatoire de Paris - 15/11/07) with ESMTP id m899H9Ss014572 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:17:09 +0200 Received: from pcjas.obspm.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcjas.obspm.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m899H9B0048166; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:17:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jas@pcjas.obspm.fr) Received: (from jas@localhost) by pcjas.obspm.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m899H7JO048165; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:17:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jas) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:17:07 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Michael Message-ID: <20080909091707.GA48060@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080908221910.025e3508@mail.computinginnovations.com> <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (blade2-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.20]); Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:17:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94/8198/Tue Sep 9 09:35:13 2008 on blade2-ext.obspm.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona Subject: Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:17:20 -0000 Le 08/09/2008 à 23:37:38-0400, Michael a écrit > > > 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. Well, depend what's you going to do with virtual machine, but jail is something very fine for apache/php server, databases etc... because you don't slow down the I/O (like vmware did). > 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. And just for information VMware ESX is free now. Regards -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Mar 9 sep 2008 11:15:26 CEST