From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 26 12:40:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA08EF30 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:40:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2911376 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r5QCeSQZ087712; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 06:40:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id r5QCeSq5087709; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 06:40:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 06:40:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: David Demelier Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <51CA203B.4090709@gmail.com> <20130625224154.6ab8c1c6@europa> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 06:40:29 -0600 (MDT) Cc: Mike Jeays , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:40:29 -0000 On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, David Demelier wrote: > 2013/6/26 Mike Jeays : >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 >> julius wrote: >> >>> Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. >>> I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have >>> use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try to >>> follow youtube BSD users that gave instructions on the BSD and no luck. >>> Everybody that I watch in youtube for instruction it hasn't work even >>> loading the BSD on is own hasn't work.So which BSD for a user desktop??! >>> Thank you >> >> PC-BSD is a good place to start; it makes installation easy. >> >> I prefer running Windows in a VM under VirtualBox to dual-booting. Switching >> between the two is much faster, and you can make the host file system visible >> to the guest with Samba. > > The only drawback of this is performance. Or you have a very powerful > machine :-) The VM guests run pretty quick, at least if the host CPU has VT-x or AMD-V. Check the BIOS, Intel VT-x is sometimes disabled there. I have not benchmarked but would estimate it to be 80-90% equivalent CPU speed, maybe a bit less for disk I/O depending on the virtual disk type. Windows in a VM also has the benefit of being able to move the VM to a different host without having to reinstall the operating system in the VM. But overall, the best feature is that the VM host and guest run at the same time.