Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:17:18 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> To: Kyle <knusbaum@sdf.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Message-ID: <55B9F9AE.6080004@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org> References: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org>
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On 07/30/15 09:45, Kyle wrote: > > I've recently installed FreeBSD on my home server to replace my linux > install after getting frustrated with some of the newer software. > > I'll prefix this question by saying I really like FreeBSD much better so > far, except for the following. > > One thing I really liked about my previous system was KVM, Linux's > kernel-supported virtualization. It always worked really well. > > I've been trying VirtualBox, QEMU, and bhyve with FreeBSD as a host, but > none of them seem to work anywhere near as well as the KVM on Linux. What is the problem with bhyve? > VirtualBox seemed to have issues with the networking. > I couldn't get KQEMU to work (it always gave me 'kqemu support: > disabled' in the kqemu console), and QEMU was too slow without it. > bhyve looks good, but it seems from what I've read that it only supports > FreeBSD and grub-bootable VMs. > > Is there anyone who has had better success than me at using FreeBSD as a > host for virtualization? I use bhyve in production and it's fine. According to the wiki, bhyve supports these: > Q: What VM operating systems does bhyve support? > > A: bhyve supports any version of FreeBSD i386/amd64 with VirtIO support, plus OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux using the sysutils/grub2-bhyve port to load them: > > FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE amd64/i386 and 8-STABLE amd64 > FreeBSD 9.*-RELEASE amd64/i386 9-STABLE amd64/i386 > FreeBSD 10 (All amd64/i386 versions) > FreeBSD 11-CURRENT amd64/i386 > OpenBSD amd64/i386 5.2 and newer > Linux amd64/i386 > NetBSD amd64 6.1 and newer > Tested GNU/Linux distributions include: > > CentOS/RHEL 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 7.0 > Debian 6.0.7, 7.0, 7.6 netinstall i386/amd64 > Fedora 20 > OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 amd64 > Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 13.04, 14.04 and 14.10 server i386/amd64 Please share more, Nikos
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