Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:35:11 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr, Michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080909053341.025e6428@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20080909091707.GA48060@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080908221910.025e3508@mail.computinginnovations.com> <48C5EF82.8000904@gmail.com> <20080909091707.GA48060@pcjas.obspm.fr>
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At 04:17 AM 9/9/2008, Albert Shih wrote:
> Le 08/09/2008 =E0 23:37:38-0400, Michael a =E9crit
> >
> >
> > Derek Ragona wrote:
> > > I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual
> > > machines. What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines
> > > under FreeBSD?
> > >
> > > I'd just like to here what has worked, or what has not worked. I find
> > > it easier to find a solution asking for real world experiences.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -Derek
> > > derek@computinginnovations.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> In my honest opinion, there aren't many good ways of doing what I
> > think you're wanting.
> > VMware is a no go for now, or probably any time soon. I don't think
> > virtualbox is running on freebsd yet. You could use jails, for just
> > other freebsd installs, not really a VM so to speak.
>
>Well, depend what's you going to do with virtual machine, but jail is
>something very fine for apache/php server, databases etc... because you
>don't slow down the I/O (like vmware did).
>
> > bochs is crap for this purpose, simics doesn't run on it worth a crap
> > either. If I were you, I would use something else. say a hypervisor
> > running on bare hardware, ie: VMware ESX, or similar. I would say xen if
> > it was ready, but I don't think it is.
>
>And just for information VMware ESX is free now.
I thought that the VMware ESX is just a trial version that quits running=
=20
after a few weeks. But if I am wrong about that, let me know.
-Derek
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