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On 07/29/13 16:23, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> Anyone got any recommended / "works for them" advice on what's the best
> virtualization platform to run FreeBSD under? (apart from FreeBSD
> itself) - we're looking for something commercial / with management etc.
> (e.g. HyperV/ESXi etc.)

Hi,

we've run FreeBSD 7 to 9 amd64 under ESXi for the last years. We had 
some issues with emulators/open-vm-tools (stalled network connections 
resulting in high load, but no crashes). I'd either choose native VMware 
tools (available, stable, and decent performance with FreeBSD 9.x under 
ESXi 5.x, though I haven't benchmarked this) or stick to em0.
I've never tried Vmware's paravirtualized disk controller, though.

--Felix

> We've got some experience running it under VMware - but are looking for
> one that offers good driver support (i.e. not 'emulated hardware' for
> NIC / disks)?
>
> The experience we've had so far hasn't been brilliant from an I/O point
> of view (hence the push to find out who/what supports FreeBSD better for
> I/O drivers) - there's only so far an emulated E1000 can go :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Karl
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