From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 10:24:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B65C1065672 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:24:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86F08FC12 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:24:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.136] (helo=smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwAdT-0007Qo-TJ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:39 +0200 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwAdP-0006XC-I3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:35 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1E183E; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:25:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4E54D165.7090202@nagual.nl> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4E549B5D.4080807@rktmb.org> <4E54B929.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E54B929.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QwAdP-0006XC-I3 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.977, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.67, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.73, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:24:42 -0000 Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only > works with FreeBSD guests. There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest > OSes as a standard client application and it tends to be slow VirtualBox is absolutely not slow. At least not on Solaris nor on windows7 boxes. The VB support from FreeBSD is not that good imho. It is a lot easier to get it going under linux, windows or solaris. I know, fbsd packages do not exist. I wonder why... > Running FreeBSD as a guest under most virtualization software works well This is very true, I agree. I've set up a ZFS root system with four disks lately to try out before doing so on rela hardware and it worked very very well. Dick