From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 15:01:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAD8376E; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "webmail2.dweimer.local", Issuer "webmail2.dweimer.local" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73345C44; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail [192.168.5.2]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s32F1tON029417 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:01:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:01:54 -0500 From: dweimer To: krad Subject: Re: Freebsd as a virtualbox HOST Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <770d723043c057050ead6a4780277eb4@dweimer.net> X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0-rc Cc: FreeBSD Questions , owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:01:57 -0000 On 04/02/2014 9:30 am, krad wrote: > whops i seem to have dropped > > the freebsd vms would be converted to VIMAGE jails. > > > On 2 April 2014 15:28, krad wrote: > >> I'm currently running a set of vms on top of solaris 11 and >> virtualbox. As >> a lot of them are freebsd im thinking I might get better overall >> performance in converting the host OS to freebsd and then running vbox >> on >> it for the leftover linux and windows vms. >> >> There is scant information out there about freebsd as a >> host/hypervisor, >> as its not officially supported. Does it perform well/bad? Is it >> stable or >> flakey? Are there any decent resources I havent found yet? >> >> Before anyone asks all my data pools are v28 so importing should be ok >> > _______________________________________________ > 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" Look here for some more info: https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox In my personal experience it works ok, if you have plenty of memory (unlike a Virtual box VM under windows it will fail to start if you don't have as much free ram on the host as you have allocated to the VM), and are not expecting stellar graphics in the VMs. Make sure to tune your zfs arc max value down so that you keep the memory available for the VMs -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/