Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

[Bas Smeelen]

On 07/05/2012 01:43 PM, Pete French wrote:
> So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement to
> see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised servers.
> I have not done this before personally, but I notice from post here
> that it doesnt seem uncommon, and I see Xen related commits flowing
> past, so I am guessing it is doable.
>
> So, for running 8 or 9 STABLE can anyone recommend which hypervisor
> works best, and is 8 or 9 better as the OS to run ? Am doing a bit
> of research myself, but nothing beats persoanl experience in these
> matters!
>
> cheers,
>
> -pete.

I have got some 8 and 9 STABLE servers running under KVM linux which works 
good with either ide or scsi drives and e1000 nics or the virtio drives and 
nics that use the virtio kernel modules from ports. I would recommend this.
Also the free of charge vmware server 2 on linux is doing a good job for 
FreeBSD guests.

But if you are going to choose a hypervisor on bare metal for FreeBSD 
guests, why not just run FreeBSD with jails?




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