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I have been looking into VirtualBox.

My biggest hurdle at the moment is getting multiple hosts on one machine 
and setting up the VRDE to use different ports.

I have also tried qemu and was having vnc issues too.

On 06/06/13 15:21, David P. Caldwell wrote:
> I am using VirtualBox without incident, with a Windows 7 host.
>
> -- David Caldwell
> http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, TJ <tj@melodicninja.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> i am looking to setting up some virtual FreeBSD servers.
>>
>> I run a run a network that only has FreeBSD hosts and i want to setup a few
>> test boxes but would be much easier if i could virtualise them.
>>
>> I know there is bhyve in CURRENT but it is still young and wanted something
>> tried and true, the FreeBSD handbook suggest VirtualBox, but there are also
>> things like qemu and xen.
>>
>> What is the best and easiest to manage?
>>
>> I have only ever used EXSi before but the ESXi client is not available for
>> *nix so it makes managing a bit more difficult.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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