best virtual server solution?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> I've been struggling to find the best virtual server solution based on a
> FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. I was hoping some members of the list could help me
> take this decision. I have questions/thoughts regarding vmware/bsd jails:
>
> - Vmware
>      - Does it run 5.2.1 nicely ?

i think yes. it emulates real PC so it should

>      - Does a Guest OS (FreeBSD) support multiple IPs?

it's guest os feature not vmware's. yes.

>      - Does vmware support Xeon CPUs? (not listen in their site)
>      - Is a xual xeon 2.8ghz + 4GB ram enough to run, say, 40 virtual
>          machines using vmware?

depends what this machines will do.

>      - Vmware *really* needs a X session to be working?

AFAIK yes. not sure vnc may be a fix

vmware is bad idea. it's slow and memory consuming (much more that virtual
machine memory).

jails are right solution.

or even better - think well if you REALLY need separated servers.

in 99% of cases the answer is no.


>
> - Jails
>      - Is there any patch working for multiple jail IPs under 5.2.1-p9 ?

AFAIK no. but it will change

>      - What jail management tool do you use? I'm are of jailutils and
> jailadmin. I'm using jailutils now mainly because of jps, altough I
> could use jailadmin and create a quick jail ... ps link that would do
> the same.    Plus, jailadmin uses a centralized configuration file
> which is easier to     keep track of.
>      - syslogd will die on the jail startup (using jstart), but if i run
> it manually it will stay running; same for cron.
>      - Outside mounts are visible inside jails, any way to change this
> behaviour ?
>
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>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Hugo
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