Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

[Sean Bruno]

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 04:43 -0700, 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.

Just a few notes from clusteradm@ about this.

I've been running a CentOS 5 machine with xen3 pretty successfully with
PV 32 bit and 64 bit HVM vms for a while now.

I install CentOS 5 and then go to the gitco repo here:
http://www.gitco.de/repo/

Pretty straight forward stuff.  I install the VMs in full HVM mode using
VNC redirection and then switch them over to PV or HVM mode and setup
serial consoles.

If you have any questions, let me know.  I can dump some of the
configurations to help you out if you wish.

Sean