Virtualizing FreeBSD...

[Jean M. Vandette]

Greetings

I asked the same question, we settled on XEN server
The process to virtualize FreeBSD is not very hard but
takes a few steps.

We have 8.4 (32 & 64) and 9.x (32 & 64) running on 
different machines.

XEN server ISO can be had at http://www.xenserver.org/
there are a few how-to's on the virtualization process.


Regards

Jean M. Vandette

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]
On Behalf Of Felix J. Ogris
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 11:48 AM
To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Virtualizing FreeBSD...

On 07/29/13 16:23, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> Anyone got any recommended / "works for them" advice on what's the 
> best virtualization platform to run FreeBSD under? (apart from FreeBSD
> itself) - we're looking for something commercial / with management etc.
> (e.g. HyperV/ESXi etc.)

Hi,

we've run FreeBSD 7 to 9 amd64 under ESXi for the last years. We had some
issues with emulators/open-vm-tools (stalled network connections resulting
in high load, but no crashes). I'd either choose native VMware tools
(available, stable, and decent performance with FreeBSD 9.x under ESXi 5.x,
though I haven't benchmarked this) or stick to em0.
I've never tried Vmware's paravirtualized disk controller, though.

--Felix

> We've got some experience running it under VMware - but are looking 
> for one that offers good driver support (i.e. not 'emulated hardware' 
> for NIC / disks)?
>
> The experience we've had so far hasn't been brilliant from an I/O 
> point of view (hence the push to find out who/what supports FreeBSD 
> better for I/O drivers) - there's only so far an emulated E1000 can go 
> :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Karl
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