Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:36:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Schedule for releases Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012221134540.36028@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <C2157170-164C-4FC8-8DFD-0500D482AC48@cederstrand.dk> References: <201012220852.oBM8q2Qi039123@lurza.secnetix.de> <C2157170-164C-4FC8-8DFD-0500D482AC48@cederstrand.dk>
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 22/12/2010 kl. 09.52 skrev Oliver Fromme: > >> For me, personally, one significant problem is that I don't have the >> resources to easily run several versions of FreeBSD at home. > > Wouldn't a jail be sufficient for work that stays in userland? And there are also reference boxes in the FreeBSD.org cluster that all FreeBSD developers have access to -- for example, ref7-amd64.FreeBSD.org. > For kernel work, I think a virtual machine would be much easier than > dual-boot. Virtuialbox seems to support FreeBSD as both host and client > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host.html), although I > haven't tried using FreeBSD as a host. I've had lots of success using Virtualbox, both hosting and hosted on, FreeBSD, in our teaching environment. I also run FreeBSD with significant success under VMWare on Mac OS X. FreeBSD on Xen is improving but I've not managed to get a kernel debugging setup working there as yet. Robert
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