From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 04:04:40 2010 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 82F64106567E for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:04:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B18F8FC21 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so9170144wyj.13 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:04:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=jbrBBAbOm9we6Iqrt4Du0+1bJvk9rlF+VaGvebGDWnU=; b=BqN5ilYYq3wI71FaD7Pnl/y1I/wqg+rLyerW0z+Nj5lsFZuqLdlEHISXuWlaSWvH0k +GM2i78nIYsUerlZ7dGeq1wt9s7GwzmK845b2BE3Mu0tSxKlJbFQTq2YJy34t7O8KiK0 0gnML+MTRvKFwI3fZGXWXBm25QF56o5zJK0L0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=sAPknoRCMzO0gNCWlWjf5uFiZJH8e3Id99NriUmj75vAYLrpStbMposHefAwFYrEnC xjPaxZnsLkFLiKEr7+wHGhXCBfK2wlz4CFc+8t/eb/KjFucTWddn2YD4we9nU/7ZYKPu vJGln3jPEeu/BrSADW1/smoY7JlandTkKkAgY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.23.206 with SMTP id v56mr381078wev.67.1281067478959; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.25.202 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 21:04:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C5B8748.1060904@el.net> References: <4C5B8748.1060904@el.net> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:04:38 -0500 Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: kalin m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtualbox 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: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:04:40 -0000 On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m wrote: > > > hi all.. > > just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - either as > host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment? > >From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE, and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES. I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance and stability are very, very good. Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :) -Brandon