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On 04/01/2015 12:41 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit:
>> As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors:
>>
>> * bhyve
>> * KVM
>> * QEMU
>> * VirtualBox
> 
> Make that 5:
>  * Xen: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0
> 
> Altough FreeBSD doesn't run KVM, and I'm not sure whether QEMU fits
> under the hypervisor category, it's an emulator instead, so the list
> should probably be 3 (Bhyve, VirtualBox and Xen).

thanks for pointing Xen out. I was indeed not aware of Xen running on
FreeBSD, an intriguing (and well known) alternative.

The wiki says, that migrate/save/restore are missing from the *BSD port.
Is that still valid?