Virtualization

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> I was curious with the information coming out regarding FreeBSD 7 what option 
> are available for virtualizing other OS's using FreeBSD as a host.
>
> I've been running several servers (Windows of various versions and a Linux 
> system) as virtual machines under VMWare Server for Linux for about a year 
> now.  I remember there were some problems with trying to get FreeBSD to run 
> VMWare previously?
>
> Is anyone virtualizing systems using a FreeBSD host, and if so what are you 
> using?  Or is FreeBSD primarily just useful for being a virtual guest if it 
> isn't on the physical machine?
I can recommend emulators/qemu . It isn't really fast, but 
stable. A good choice to test software or network setups, runs 
(o.k. "strolls along") on i386 and amd64.

Greetings,

Uli.


Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany