From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 10:35:35 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 2C5C01065672 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:35:35 +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 D8B708FC21 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:35:34 +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 m89AZODV074923; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 05:35:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080909053341.025e6428@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:35:11 -0500 To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr, Michael From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20080909091707.GA48060@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080908221910.025e3508@mail.computinginnovations.com> <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> <20080909091707.GA48060@pcjas.obspm.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080908-0, 09/08/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8198/Tue Sep 9 02:35:13 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m89AZODV074923 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 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 10:35:35 -0000 At 04:17 AM 9/9/2008, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 08/09/2008 =E0 23:37:38-0400, Michael a =E9crit > > > > > > 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. I thought that the VMware ESX is just a trial version that quits running= =20 after a few weeks. But if I am wrong about that, let me know. -Derek --=20 This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.