From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 3 02:23:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9A6106568B for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 02:23:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdq@peterk.org) Received: from poshta.pknet.net (poshta.pknet.net [216.241.167.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 727848FC21 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 02:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 69699 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2009 02:23:37 -0000 Received: from poshta.pknet.net (HELO webmail.pknet.net) (216.241.167.213) by poshta.pknet.net with SMTP; 3 Nov 2009 02:23:37 -0000 Received: from 216.241.167.212 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdq@peterk.org) by webmail.pknet.net with HTTP; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:23:37 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <12521765e8ea424f9c78a5465a32f6f3.squirrel@webmail.pknet.net> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310911021808x1927581ak437f2cbc55648507@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ad871310911021808x1927581ak437f2cbc55648507@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:23:37 -0700 (MST) From: "Peter" To: "Glen Barber" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Peter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:23:39 -0000 > Hi > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Peter wrote: >> iH, >>   Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. >> Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management >> and >> just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old. >> >> So far thinking of going >>  netbsd -> xen -> freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] >> or would the following be better? >>  linux -> xen -> freebsd/whatever >> or >>  freebsd -> virtualbox -> freebsd/whatever >> or [don't really care for] >>  linux -> vmware workstation -> freebsd/whatever >>    [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] >> >> Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or >> would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? >> What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? >> >> Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. > > If your end result is to run FreeBSD, why not use jails? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html > > > -- > Glen Barber Have jails now, wanted to try something new - and prolly run freebsd/windows/linux/whatever on that box also for the fun of it. ]Peter[