Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:05:26 -0400 From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Message-ID: <55BA1306.3070201@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507300450550.52693@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507300450550.52693@wonkity.com>
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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. 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"
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