From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 17:21:01 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 BFEF116A407 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: from ns.networktest.com (ns.networktest.com [207.181.8.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F36543CBA for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:21:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: by ns.networktest.com (Postfix, from userid 1020) id 533EC171BD; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:19:59 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on saronni.eng.networktest.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from [172.31.0.254] (dhcp254.eng.networktest.com [172.31.0.254]) by ns.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B7617001; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:19:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4586CDF3.6050709@networktest.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:20:51 -0800 From: David Newman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Seward References: <4586ADC2.9030807@networktest.com> <720051dc0612180832y28d3d545qa6bebdb7feea990f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <720051dc0612180832y28d3d545qa6bebdb7feea990f@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 17:21:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/06 8:32 AM, James Seward wrote: > 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. > Thanks very much. I too have run FreeBSD as a guest OS under various VMware flavors for years. My question is whether FreeBSD is a suitable _host_ OS for any virtual machine environment, preferably with support for SMP, amd64, and guest OS speed at or close to native hardware speeds. Thanks again! dn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFhs3zyPxGVjntI4IRAnPAAKDxgpRIKN+s0anO6Ct8MOdf86Kh6ACeN0N+ 6qknCmjZWaC0KSeRW0W2SsI= =HIuy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----