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Subject: Re: Freebsd as a virtualbox HOST
From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
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whops i seem to have dropped

the freebsd vms would be converted to VIMAGE jails.


On 2 April 2014 15:28, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> 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
>