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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:42:30 -0400
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <20120602004230.GA14487@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <201206020012.q520CEcf057568@hugeraid.jetcafe.org>
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:12:14PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> writes:
> > If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please
> > list those areas with most important first to least important last ?
> 
> 1) I don't use FreeBSD for virtualization as the host OS. I really want
> to, becaus I want to be able to somewhat trust the kernel hosting my
> virtual machines. FreeBSD technology, support, and documentation for
> this idea appears unavailable. 

Have you looked at VirtualBox?  /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose

Its not a fully featured replacement for vSphere (e.g. no equivalent
of vMotion) but it is a perfectly workable virtualisation solution
for a number of situations.

Gary



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