xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

Peter fbsdq at peterk.org
Tue Nov 3 02:23:39 UTC 2009


> Hi
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Peter <fbsdq at peterk.org> wrote:
>> iH,
>>   Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment.
>> Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management
>> and
>> just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old.
>>
>> So far thinking of going
>>  netbsd -> xen -> freebsd/whatever [if it'll work]
>> or would the following be better?
>>  linux -> xen -> freebsd/whatever
>> or
>>  freebsd -> virtualbox -> freebsd/whatever
>> or [don't really care for]
>>  linux -> vmware workstation -> freebsd/whatever
>>    [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]]
>>
>> Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or
>> would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ?
>> What dom0 have you found to work best with xen?
>>
>> Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience.
>
> If your end result is to run FreeBSD, why not use jails?
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html
>
>
> --
> Glen Barber

Have jails now, wanted to try something new - and prolly run
freebsd/windows/linux/whatever on that box also for the fun of it.

]Peter[



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