Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:06:35 -0200 From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> To: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@penx.com>, freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Solution for school lab Message-ID: <1319994395.24896.10.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110301002001.17627@Elmer.dco.penx.com> References: <4EAD2070.3020903@aboutsupport.com> <1319987010.21810.13.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110301002001.17627@Elmer.dco.penx.com>
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> 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
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