Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:16:36 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <201108242016.37102.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <201108241148.p7OBmUYo003209@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201108241148.p7OBmUYo003209@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Wednesday 24 August 2011 08:48:30 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > > Reference: > > From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> > > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 > > Message-id: <4E54D165.7090202@nagual.nl> > > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: > > > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > > > There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only > > > works with FreeBSD guests. There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest > > > OSes as a standard client application and it tends to be slow > > > > VirtualBox is absolutely not slow. At least not on Solaris nor on > > windows7 boxes. The VB support from FreeBSD is not that good imho. It is > > a lot easier to get it going under linux, windows or solaris. I know, > > fbsd packages do not exist. I wonder why... > > I don't know how you guys have been installing Virtualbox on FreeBSD but I have been using it since 3.x.x, Always compiling it from ports (using 4.1.2 now), almost without glitch. The "almost" is on account of a long gone bug with nvidia driver versions 1.7.something. Nothing to do with VB. After that, no glitches anymore. As how it runs on my 8-STABLE amd64, I've been able to compare it to vmware and hiper-v and as far as running the same things on the 3 of them, to me, VBox outperformed both in terms of speed and responsiveness. All 3 are pretty stable and hiper-v needs a monster machine to run, contrary to VB and VW. I have linux (fedora, centos and ubuntu), OS-x (hackintosh and SL), Os/2, Android, Xp (32/64),Win 2003 and win7 (32/64) vms, all jumping from VB version to VB version, all without a single glitch, and all performing better with each new version. I went as far as installing a background VB Xp vm on my firewall (which is a small FBSD 8-STABLE i386 ) for application testing purposes. I can't say how VB runs on huge environments because I don't have access to any. As for support for VB in general, just stay tunned to VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community and vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev and http://forums.virtualbox.org/ I'm sure anyone will find all questions answered. and specific to FreeBSD. Bernhard Froehlich has been doing a wonderful job, constantly updating the VB ports. Check out https://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports under emulators. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
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