virtualbox

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Brandon Gooch on Thursday, 05 August 2010:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m <kalin at el.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > hi all..
> >
> > just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - either as
> > host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment?
> >
> 
> >From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE,
> and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES.
> 
> I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance
> and stability are very, very good.
> 
> Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with
> the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :)
> 
> -Brandon
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I'll second that.  I haven't used FreeBSD as a guest yet, but as a host
VirtualBox performs very nicely, and (touch wood) I haven't had any
problems with using Windows 7 and Windows XP as guests.  I'm on amd64
FreeBSD, and I've run both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows guests.

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