Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:39:21 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Message-ID: <55BA1982.7060807@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55B9F9AE.6080004@gmx.com> References: <alpine.NEB.2.02.1507300637550.16867@iceland.freeshell.org> <55B9F9AE.6080004@gmx.com>
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On 07/30/15 05:23, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
>
>
> 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
Can bhyve do non-native guests (M$FT, WinXP or Win7 for example) ? Also,
I can't find any mention of it on my 9.3R-p20 box, is it only available
for 10.0 & higher ?
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William A. Mahaffey III
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