running FreeBSD on Windows host

[Manolis Kiagias]

On 23/08/2010 10:08 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've to re-install my laptop with some Windows version (Vista or Windows
> 7) with disk encryption. Of course I will go on to work in FreeBSD
> 9-CURRENT and KDE3 as desktop. Please, don't ask me why I have to put Windows below :-)
>
> I have some questions:
>
> >From the point of view of performance in FreeBSD, what would be better, Vista or
> Win7?
>   

Win 7 is a lot better than Vista...
> Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance?
>   

Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble.
VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some
kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host is also FreeBSD!)
Have not tried very recent versions though, it may have improved.