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Subject: Centos on FreeBSD
From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:33:35 +0000
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What's the best way to run Centos/Red Hat 7 64 bit on FreeBSD? I've got it running fairly happily on Xen, but I get the feeling it's not quite right. It takes a very long time to boot, for example.

I did think of running CentOS as Dom0 and BSD as DomU, but there must be a better way.

Before I delve into why CentOS takes ten minutes to boot (no clue on screen, of course), is there a better hypervisor? I would prefer not to run X. Talking to CentOS on VNC suits me very well.

Thanks, Frank.