From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 08:59:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56E5761E for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpdg94.aruba.it (smtpdg94.aruba.it [62.149.158.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DDCD8E for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cloverinformatica.it ([188.10.129.202]) by smtpcmd05.ad.aruba.it with bizsmtp id lLyu1n00q4N8xN401LyudC; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:58:55 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.99] (unknown [192.168.0.99]) by cloverinformatica.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0BEA19E; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 10:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <533D22B6.6050107@cloverinformatica.it> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:58:30 +0200 From: Maurizio Vairani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krad Subject: Re: Freebsd as a virtualbox HOST References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:59:04 -0000 On 02/04/2014 16:28, 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" I am running FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE as a VirtualBox host with three Windows 7 VM from February 2013. The FreeBSD server has an Intel i7 with 64 GB RAM. The server and the VMs are very, very stable. I am writing this mail in a Windows 7 VM via Mac OS X Remote Desktop and seems to work on real PC. The only real, unique issue is the VM clock drift: it is slow, very slow and I need to synchronize it every 5 minutes. In the log I can read from +105ms to +50,43s as adjustment. Regards Maurizio