Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

Gary Palmer gpalmer at freebsd.org
Sat Jun 2 00:43:12 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:12:14PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> writes:
> > If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please
> > list those areas with most important first to least important last ?
> 
> 1) I don't use FreeBSD for virtualization as the host OS. I really want
> to, becaus I want to be able to somewhat trust the kernel hosting my
> virtual machines. FreeBSD technology, support, and documentation for
> this idea appears unavailable. 

Have you looked at VirtualBox?  /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose

Its not a fully featured replacement for vSphere (e.g. no equivalent
of vMotion) but it is a perfectly workable virtualisation solution
for a number of situations.

Gary


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