Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:30 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <201108241148.p7OBmUYo003209@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 %2B0200." <4E54D165.7090202@nagual.nl>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 > Message-id: <4E54D165.7090202@nagual.nl> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > 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. I was reading I think it was nebsd-users@betbsd.org a few days back, quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, it seems NetBSD may have more support support there &/or with Xen. Best check for yourself though, I'm just a reader. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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