Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

[Joel Dahl]

On 05-07-2012  9:05, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 06:43:06 -0500, Pete French  
> <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk> 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!
> >
> 
> I can't recommend ESX at all. We are struggling to keep our FreeBSD  
> servers from crashing. I can make them crash on demand just by stressing  
> I/O and network at the same time. I have a PR regarding the issue, but no  
> known fix yet.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168416&cat=

This may also be of interest for people looking at VMware ESX:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31929

-- 
Joel