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Date:      Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:31 +0000
From:      Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Dan Riordan <deisehost@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for Linux VPS?
Message-ID:  <47ECFD0B.1050500@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <946ebc730803271708m1d6848f7h44321301aea764b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <946ebc730803271708m1d6848f7h44321301aea764b@mail.gmail.com>

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Dan Riordan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just wondering if FreeBSD is usable on Linux VPS servers? I run VPS services
> and a client is asking if we could support it. It would be good if we could.
> If you could let me know as soon as you can, that would be super.
> 
> Thank you,
> Dan
> 
It depends how you do your VPS's If you fully virtualise them with
vmware then yes, otherwise no as FreeBSD is a completely different
operating system than Linux and wont work with things like
openvz/virtuozzo and its Xen support is still experimental.

Vince



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