Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:56:16 +0300 From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@rktmb.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <4E54BCB0.70808@rktmb.org> In-Reply-To: <4E54B929.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4E549B5D.4080807@rktmb.org> <4E54B929.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 08/24/2011 11:41 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Probably start by installing PC-BSD -- that's based on FreeBSD but > tailored to providing the sort of desktop environment you'ld want on a > laptop. I made search before posting and it also seems a good directoin to take. > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only works > with FreeBSD guests. That will be alright for experimenting FreeBSD and learning. Will I be able to jail a FreeBSD within a PC-BSD host? > There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest OSes > as a standard client application and it tends to be slow, Mmmh, even on Linux I dont really like VirtualBox. I'd rather KVM. > or there's > Xen, where dom0 support by FreeBSD is in the works, but probably not > good enough for production use yet. According to http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen, I think I could be able to use Xen for learning purpose. I used some Xen 3.0.x on Linux a long time ago then switched to KVM. What about http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/BSD? Some users in here? It's just to use a PCBSD as host, then virtualize some Linuxes or Windows for presentation purposes (not production). The FreeBSDs will be "jailed". > Running FreeBSD as a guest under most virtualization software works well > -- it's fine with Linux KVM for instance. Thank you. -- RMA.
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