From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 31 14:52:50 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 BF5CD9AF58E for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9756514B7 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B8E20A82 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:52:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:52:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=ImCyyQxuHtG7V7+ HzYSGFzM+o0w=; b=UoDCTWantiClYUpy+4GzYTmbvQTd/gE9MXbu9zRV/+sVqwn 1SQMVWnYYmiD9ZL5HpGCMVNmlCc15sjiYW7L4doNiNl3UG9gQXFtji6JbEqziNTT yaVw1NYLkR1aSV7MtJr1TRjXAE8FW+Y44BVmNOQ4AYafLc4mkw8PpNhZGGYM= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 16A41101F7D; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:52:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1438354368.3944988.338262497.253D15F5@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: mv5RnZklhbMpCH1bSGwDgDSLgqdwQs6WVzUtBV2zIJc5 1438354368 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-63a5d8c6 In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:52:48 -0500 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: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:52:50 -0000 On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 01:45, 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. > > 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? > > Thanks > You could try Xen dom0 on CURRENT. Michael Dexter has posted pictures of it running a Windows VM guest. I've been meaning to do the same, but haven't had time lately. I might get around to it this weekend and maybe write a blog post about it.