From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 14:19:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3748C6DC for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from SMTP.CITRIX.COM (smtp.citrix.com [66.165.176.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.citrix.com", Issuer "Cybertrust Public SureServer SV CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB95B2CC for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:19:44 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,504,1422921600"; d="scan'208";a="248549044" Message-ID: <551BFE7C.9060907@citrix.com> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:19:40 +0200 From: =?windows-1252?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Udo Rader , Subject: Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD References: <551BC8B3.2030900@bestsolution.at> <551BCB74.1060900@citrix.com> <551BEBBD.4040509@bestsolution.at> In-Reply-To: <551BEBBD.4040509@bestsolution.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-DLP: MIA1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:19:45 -0000 El 01/04/15 a les 14.59, Udo Rader ha escrit: > 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? Yes, I'm currently finishing the patches for Xen. This is not missing from FreeBSD, but from Xen itself when running Dom0 in PVH mode. Roger.