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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 2010 21:16:51 -0700
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: virtualbox
Message-ID:  <20100806041651.GA97269@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinyi9qYDNKcsFRb%2BQi4ahAtkUuaVHCdu2NAfMGq@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoth Brandon Gooch on Thursday, 05 August 2010:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m <kalin@el.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > hi all..
> >
> > just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - eithe=
r as
> > host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment?
> >
>=20
> >From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE,
> and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES.
>=20
> I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance
> and stability are very, very good.
>=20
> Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with
> the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :)
>=20
> -Brandon
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I'll second that.  I haven't used FreeBSD as a guest yet, but as a host
VirtualBox performs very nicely, and (touch wood) I haven't had any
problems with using Windows 7 and Windows XP as guests.  I'm on amd64
FreeBSD, and I've run both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows guests.

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