Re: State of virtualization on FreeBSD

In reply to: Steven Friedrich : "State of virtualization on FreeBSD"
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From: infoomatic <infoomatic_at_gmx.at>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 13:38:08 UTC

Hi,

definitely bhyve. Though it misses some features it is a great hypervisor.

Xen has never been more than experimental as Dom0 on FreeBSD, also the
freebsd-xen mailing list has been quite idle in recent years.

Regards,
Robert

On 17.05.23 14:00, 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?
>
>