Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:52:48 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Message-ID: <1438354368.3944988.338262497.253D15F5@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org> References: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org>
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 01:45, 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. > > 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? > > Thanks > You could try Xen dom0 on CURRENT. Michael Dexter has posted pictures of it running a Windows VM guest. I've been meaning to do the same, but haven't had time lately. I might get around to it this weekend and maybe write a blog post about it.
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