VM Options

[Bruce Cran]

Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> Robert Eckardt wrote:
>> It depends on what you want to do.
>
> To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least
>
> VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well 
> under FreeBSD.
> Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow.
>
> So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any other options?

While Qemu is normally slow, there was a SoC project to add KVM 
(Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support to FreeBSD - it uses the 
virtualization features built in to modern Intel and AMD CPUs.  It 
speeds things up substantially. For more information go to 
http://feanor.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/

If that doesn't work then you could also try emulators/kqemu-kmod/ - 
while it doesn't take advantage of the VT or SVM features in modern 
CPUs, it allows Qemu to run a lot of code natively and so speeds things 
up quite a bit.

--
Bruce