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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:13:00 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtual machine on freebsd
Message-ID:  <200812050913.00889.fjwcash@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4938DF2A.6080409@unile.it>
References:  <49376544.70006@redhat.com> <20081204070239.X80401@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <4938DF2A.6080409@unile.it>

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On December 4, 2008 11:58 pm Antonio Tommasi wrote:
> Hi to all,
> i want to install a virtual machine on my FreeBSD 7.0 box. Can you tell
> me which is the better sofware to do this?

For a FreeBSD host, QEmu is the best supported option.

There's also Win4BSD, which is a customised/modified version of QEmu.  I've 
seen several reports online of this being better/faster than QEmu.  I've 
never personally been able to get it to work, though.

And that's pretty much it if you want full-OS virtualisation (ie, the VMs 
have their own OS).  If you don't need that, and just want to run multiple 
FreeBSD setups on one host, have a look at jail(8).

-- 
Freddie
fjwcash@gmail.com



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