From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 30 12:33:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B6C9AD909 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:33:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C89881310 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:33:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-211-22.knology.net [216.186.211.22] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t6UCX6sj010571 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:33:07 -0500 Message-ID: <55BA1982.7060807@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:39:21 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD References: <55B9F9AE.6080004@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <55B9F9AE.6080004@gmx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:33:09 -0000 On 07/30/15 05:23, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On 07/30/15 09:45, Kyle wrote: >> >> I've recently installed FreeBSD on my home server to replace my linux >> install after getting frustrated with some of the newer software. >> >> I'll prefix this question by saying I really like FreeBSD much better so >> far, except for the following. >> >> One thing I really liked about my previous system was KVM, Linux's >> kernel-supported virtualization. It always worked really well. >> >> I've been trying VirtualBox, QEMU, and bhyve with FreeBSD as a host, but >> none of them seem to work anywhere near as well as the KVM on Linux. > > What is the problem with bhyve? > >> VirtualBox seemed to have issues with the networking. >> I couldn't get KQEMU to work (it always gave me 'kqemu support: >> disabled' in the kqemu console), and QEMU was too slow without it. >> bhyve looks good, but it seems from what I've read that it only supports >> FreeBSD and grub-bootable VMs. >> >> Is there anyone who has had better success than me at using FreeBSD as a >> host for virtualization? > > I use bhyve in production and it's fine. According to the wiki, > bhyve supports these: > >> Q: What VM operating systems does bhyve support? >> >> A: bhyve supports any version of FreeBSD i386/amd64 with VirtIO >> support, plus OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux using the >> sysutils/grub2-bhyve port to load them: >> >> FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE amd64/i386 and 8-STABLE amd64 >> FreeBSD 9.*-RELEASE amd64/i386 9-STABLE amd64/i386 >> FreeBSD 10 (All amd64/i386 versions) >> FreeBSD 11-CURRENT amd64/i386 >> OpenBSD amd64/i386 5.2 and newer >> Linux amd64/i386 >> NetBSD amd64 6.1 and newer >> Tested GNU/Linux distributions include: >> >> CentOS/RHEL 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 7.0 >> Debian 6.0.7, 7.0, 7.6 netinstall i386/amd64 >> Fedora 20 >> OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 amd64 >> Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 13.04, 14.04 and 14.10 server i386/amd64 > > Please share more, > Nikos Can bhyve do non-native guests (M$FT, WinXP or Win7 for example) ? Also, I can't find any mention of it on my 9.3R-p20 box, is it only available for 10.0 & higher ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.