From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 3:30:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.switch.aust.com (ppp63.adsl238.pacific.net.au [203.143.238.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB9A37B416 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.switch.aust.com (IDENT:root@ras.wa [10.0.1.140]) by mail.switch.aust.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13482; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:30:26 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: server1.ussbris: Host IDENT:root@ras.wa [10.0.1.140] claimed to be smtp2.switch.aust.com Received: from freebsd06.udt (nelsont@freebsd06.udt [10.0.2.56]) by smtp2.switch.aust.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fARBox426794; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:51:02 +0800 Received: by freebsd06.udt (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:26:56 +0800 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:26:56 +0800 From: Trent Nelson To: Joesh Juphland Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compare and contrast vmware and jail ? Message-ID: <20011127192656.B71957@freebsd06.udt> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from part_lion@hotmail.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:11:42PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:11:42PM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote: > > I am going to be setting up four freeBSD servers as a test environment - > they need to be totally isolated machines. However, I would like to see if > I can do all of this on one server. The choice that comes to mind > immediately is vmware, but since I am required to use all freeBSD, I would > be using vmware via linux compatibility mode, which is somewhat slower than > native vmware on linux. Eek, no way. I *have* to use VMware to run Linux at work (otherwise I would have had to put Linux back on my desktop) and I have been nothing short of utterly impressed with it's performance on FreeBSD. (On a side-note, if one has to run both Linux & FreeBSD on the same box, I hold the opinion that it is actually advantageous to run FreeBSD as the host and Linux as the guest for two reasons. Firstly, I could swear VMware runs far faster and more stable on FreeBSD than it does on Linux (from the machines we have at work anyway). Secondly, there's always likely to be better support for Linux as a guest OS.) I haven't run multiple VMware instances though, nor have I used FreeBSD as a guest OS -- your mileage may vary. I'm not really suggesting VMware over jail, I just wanted to inform you that VMware performs bloody fantastically on FreeBSD. (Yeah, ok, I'll keep going. My Linux VM actually builds our work system up to ten minutes quicker than running Linux na- tively on the same machine. Make of that what you will!) Regards, Trent. -- Trent Nelson - Software Engineer - nelsont@switch.aust.com "A man with unlimited enthusiasm can achieve almost anything." --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message