Re: State of virtualization on FreeBSD

From: Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 13:18:25 UTC
On 5/17/23 8:41 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> 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.
>
This page was last edited on 26 October 2016, at 09:41

That was seven years go, has Xen abandoned FreeBSD?

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