From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 17:00:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FBE16A407 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:00:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2354843CA2 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:00:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so603486nzh for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:00:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a5oleFb9ZnvfFwSYr/vhN1JmVBvNsW0xgd/7a91RHB7tS36jRMp8PLmL8gB0P3m2CaUX+Mfus208i69P0Q1DOxXZpiDp0yJobp7wiR4bHQYSxQK451IF/1eS1+kEBnEz9Qh4a1a3deJ4/+lUTCrjoit4pY1pln5WnH5+QwSyB4c= Received: by 10.78.187.17 with SMTP id k17mr2900243huf.1166459521414; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.130.5 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:32:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <720051dc0612180832y28d3d545qa6bebdb7feea990f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:32:01 +0000 From: "James Seward" To: "David Newman" In-Reply-To: <4586ADC2.9030807@networktest.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4586ADC2.9030807@networktest.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS? 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: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:00:53 -0000 On 12/18/06, David Newman wrote: > "You really need as the host OS" is a perfectly valid > response too. I run VMware Server on Ubuntu (one of the supported Linux host flavours, and the only one I'm prepared to put up with), hosting currently two Windows Server 2003 and two FreeBSD 6.x VMs on a Dell 1855 blade. While I haven't performed any benchmarks (benchmarks inside a VM are tricky to get right) I can report no noticable performance problems with the workload the machines have to handle. The Windows machines are a small fileserver and a WSUS server; the FreeBSD machines are performing spam-assassination and NFS serving. vmware1$ uptime 16:27:45 up 66 days, 5:17, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.56, 0.54 I have a FreeBSD-based PXE server running in Workstation 5.5 on my desktop, and have had success running FreeBSD 4.x under ESX Server 2.5.x in a previous life. /JMS