From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 30 12:30:04 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F859AD786 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86268F53 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-211-22.knology.net [216.186.211.22] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t6UCTtw8008199 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:29:56 -0500 Message-ID: <55BA18C3.3040307@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:36:10 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD References: <55BA1306.3070201@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <55BA1306.3070201@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:30:04 -0000 On 07/30/15 07:11, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > Agreed. I just recently (earlier this week) installed VBox on 2 > machines, it works just fine. *shrug* > > However, moving on, have you looked at jails? > > I have over 20 jails running on a single 6 core CPU machine and > everything is smooth and nice. :-) > > P. Can jails run non-native guests/VM's (M$FT, for example) ? I thought I saw something about this online a while back, but haven't been able to re-acquire it .... I'm on 9.3R-p20, BTW .... > > On 07/30/2015 06:57, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, 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. >>> >>> VirtualBox seemed to have issues with the networking. >> >> In what way? It has worked pretty well for me. I generally use NAT >> unless PXE-booting a VM, then use bridged networking. The PCnet-PCI >> II (Am79C970A) works for either, the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop >> (82540EM) also works well but I think I added the adapter PXE code >> because it was not included. There are instructions for this >> somewhere, but it's not really needed because the first adapter can >> be used. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.