Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:36:10 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Message-ID: <55BA18C3.3040307@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55BA1306.3070201@yahoo.com> References: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507300450550.52693@wonkity.com> <55BA1306.3070201@yahoo.com>
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On 07/30/15 07:11, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > Agreed. I just recently (earlier this week) installed VBox on 2 > machines, it works just fine. *shrug* > > However, moving on, have you looked at jails? > > I have over 20 jails running on a single 6 core CPU machine and > everything is smooth and nice. :-) > > P. Can jails run non-native guests/VM's (M$FT, for example) ? I thought I saw something about this online a while back, but haven't been able to re-acquire it .... I'm on 9.3R-p20, BTW .... > > On 07/30/2015 06:57, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Kyle wrote: >> >>> >>> I've recently installed FreeBSD on my home server to replace my >>> linux install after getting frustrated with some of the newer software. >>> >>> I'll prefix this question by saying I really like FreeBSD much >>> better so far, except for the following. >>> >>> One thing I really liked about my previous system was KVM, Linux's >>> kernel-supported virtualization. It always worked really well. >>> >>> I've been trying VirtualBox, QEMU, and bhyve with FreeBSD as a host, >>> but none of them seem to work anywhere near as well as the KVM on >>> Linux. >>> >>> VirtualBox seemed to have issues with the networking. >> >> In what way? It has worked pretty well for me. I generally use NAT >> unless PXE-booting a VM, then use bridged networking. The PCnet-PCI >> II (Am79C970A) works for either, the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop >> (82540EM) also works well but I think I added the adapter PXE code >> because it was not included. There are instructions for this >> somewhere, but it's not really needed because the first adapter can >> be used. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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