Re: State of virtualization on FreeBSD

From: Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 12:41:16 UTC
On 5/17/23 8:00 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I am new to virtualization on FreeBSD and trying to figure out the 
> best solution for my use case.
>
> I am running a workstation and hoping to ditch multi-booting several 
> partitions of FreeBSD, Linux Minst, KDE Neon, etc.
>
> I only have a single hard drive (6TB), so root-on-zfs is ok, though I 
> am perplexed by zfs complexity.  I have no intention of offering 
> commercial virtualization.  I just want to audit OSes.
>
> I have watched P03A: Xen HVMlite and FreeBSD - Roger Pau Monné on 
> YouTube, but I have a hard time viewing and hearing the presentation.  
> Is there a written version of this presentation with slides available?
>
> There has been a lot of development of virtualization since this 
> presentation.  Are there newer presentations of each virtualization 
> solution?
>
> Why would I choose bhyve over Xen?
>
I perused https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0#Shortcomings

Are these shortcomings still present?  I want dom0 to be FreeBSD, not Linux.

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