On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:13:00 -0800
Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On December 4, 2008 11:58 pm Antonio Tommasi wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> > i want to install a virtual machine on my FreeBSD 7.0 box. Can you tell
> > me which is the better sofware to do this?
Antonio,
you would have received more answers if you asked in the right forum (
questions@).
>
> For a FreeBSD host, QEmu is the best supported option.
>
> There's also Win4BSD, which is a customised/modified version of QEmu. I've
> seen several reports online of this being better/faster than QEmu. I've
> never personally been able to get it to work, though.
Works ok, though I don't think it's that so much faster than QEmu that makes it
worth going through the effort of recreating your VMs.... YMMV.
>
> And that's pretty much it if you want full-OS virtualisation (ie, the VMs
> have their own OS). If you don't need that, and just want to run multiple
> FreeBSD setups on one host, have a look at jail(8).
>
- VMWare Workstation {very old version} is in ports. You need an *old* license
from vmware...no idea how well it works.
- http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen - still not production ready.
Check the archives of questions@ for more threads on this subject.
cheers,
B
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