From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 10:42:50 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 3E7571065674 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:42:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0BF8FC24 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:42:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 68-189-244-97.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.244.97] helo=Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Kd0gH-00050K-UZ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:42:47 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF3124913AE; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 06:42:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48C65327.10206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:42:47 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Ragona References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080908221910.025e3508@mail.computinginnovations.com> <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> <20080909091707.GA48060@pcjas.obspm.fr> <6.0.0.22.2.20080909053341.025e6428@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080909053341.025e6428@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) Cc: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr, Michael , 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 Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:42:50 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Derek Ragona wrote: > 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 yo= u >> don't slow down the I/O (like vmware did). >> >> > bochs is crap for this purpose, simics doesn't run on it worth a cra= p >> > 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. >=20 > I thought that the VMware ESX is just a trial version that quits > running after a few weeks. But if I am wrong about that, let me know. >=20 > -Derek >=20 Hi Derek, Nope, it is free. Check out: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/uses.ht= ml One thing to note, though. It still needs approved hardware to install. At the moment, I have installed it into a VM within VMware Workstation to achieve that. I'll have to do some testing to see how performace suffers! It might be fine for a test environment, which is what I'm using it for. Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIxlMn0sRouByUApARAsSNAJ9eL1HspV1jTAAgOy1jRWAUIVyRugCfQx6P HGG1jxDnmxkQWZnbl+gn1Cc=3D =3DkLlt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----