Virtualizing FreeBSD...

[Outback Dingo]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Jean M. Vandette <vandj at securenet.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Ive also chosen XEN, XCP specifically, and XENHVM kernels work great on
9.1, 9.2-BETA2, and CURRENT
Personally I wount go anywhere near VMWare


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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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