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awesome...  i will.  i'm basically intending to use it for production 
servers. i'll give it try...

was reading something about not supporting usb...  how about serial ports?

i was reading the documentation. not much there...  how about 
management, data backup and recovery? real time vm swaps?

thanks...





Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m <kalin@el.net> 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
>