Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:39:14 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host Message-ID: <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de>
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On 23/08/2010 10:08 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I've to re-install my laptop with some Windows version (Vista or Windows > 7) with disk encryption. Of course I will go on to work in FreeBSD > 9-CURRENT and KDE3 as desktop. Please, don't ask me why I have to put Windows below :-) > > I have some questions: > > >From the point of view of performance in FreeBSD, what would be better, Vista or > Win7? > Win 7 is a lot better than Vista... > Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance? > Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble. VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host is also FreeBSD!) Have not tried very recent versions though, it may have improved.home | help
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