Virtualizing FreeBSD...

[Charles Sprickman]

On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Robert Blayzor wrote:

> On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Rasmus Fauske <rasmus at postboks.org> wrote:
>>> I completely disagree. I've even started a ridiculously long thread
>>> about FreeBSD's nonstop crashing on VMWare ESXi. We moved to entirely
>>> new hardware, rebuilt the VMs from scratch, new SANs, different ESXi
>>> versions, etc. Never fixed it. VMWare kept saying "not a bug" and
>>> refused to support FreeBSD, even though they claim to.
>>> 
>> I have been running FreeBSD on several ESXi setups and have never had any other problem then not so speedy io. No crashes or anything.
>> 
>> What problems did you have ?
> 
> 
> I have to second that.  I've not had any problems with FreeBSD 8.x or 9.x on ESXi 5.x.  The only issue I've run into is lack of support for jumbo frames using the e1000 driver.

I'll third that except for this one, which was quite fun to troubleshoot (only big symptom was that pf was running out of states, and I couldn't see the traffic that would drive it to that 'state'):

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2032586

Disk IO isn't super impressive, but I have little to compare it to.

Also not thrilled about having to use vmware tools built for FreeBSD 6.x, or not being able to quiesce writes during snapshots.

But it works, and with less cursing than I've heard from people running Xen and all the confusing variants thereof.

Charles

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