From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 30 17:32:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF59106564A for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:32:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenzi.sergio@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381678FC0A for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywt32 with SMTP id 32so6842079ywt.13 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:32:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:disposition-notification-to :content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; bh=+UA0sBXgTqaPKnTxiNKTMkUNF+9DPF4rh0gCuIzA35c=; b=cUHj8hBp06AzSmd7XNLiyoTgka+KUO1/bMKey99t79dO8yWxJ7yDo9gxPkex9J6tkp kk7RD9tHYmV+YLxNh78/THcOcvoFqWmEqFs33SZ2pZrh4FCgDqxPBLyqx0LJhAV5dJSo RjIp3gB6wpkctW/t1plOGEgNOF+PGphBKoiMk= Received: by 10.150.138.15 with SMTP id l15mr8647988ybd.21.1319994401671; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.6.230] ([201.21.151.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j13sm44023470ani.19.2011.10.30.10.06.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:06:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi To: Dennis Glatting , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: References: <4EAD2070.3020903@aboutsupport.com> <1319987010.21810.13.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:06:35 -0200 Message-ID: <1319994395.24896.10.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Solution for school lab 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: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:32:57 -0000 > Consider installing VMWare ESXi and instances of whatever operating system > you like. We have template operating systems we copy to new/replacement > instances. You can export your disks to the instances but with all things > you gain some, you loose some. with the small machine (phenon 4, 8Gb), and vmware, the sistems is slow... and the MB does not accept more than 8GB. Besides I would need a version of each operating system for VMWARE.. and I do not know if vmware can be used for free. If even in a school you can, in other places you cannot, so I would cope with several platforms... Here I run a business based on FreeBSD, and the less different solutions the better... > > As someone else mentioned, consider netboot. The booted instance can do > whatever they want to your hardware but disks are likely to have to be > re-initialized each time, which is fine if you are using disks for swap > and other temporary things. I use PXE because it is in the firmware of the MB... (almost always have)... some very old computers, does not boot anything but: floppy, cd, or HD... I choose CD.. one CD, boot all machines... Netboot is great too... > > With regard to VirtualBox, someone needs to fix it (probably just update > the port). The network driver (IIRC) eats memory. Strange I have been using it in a day basis, and never had problems with that... the machine sometimes suffer power failure (3 months, or 1 month period).. I use FreeBSD 8.2 in zfs... with zmirror, and daylly snapshots... so I can go back anything till 5 days ago... Anyway, thanks for the information [] Sergio