On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Da Rock <freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I think you're > where I was at a while ago, and a little investigation will change your > mind. FWIW Xen is a hypervisor, and platforms need to be able to run in it, > not the other way around. Have a read up on it anyway. > > What you want I think is something like VirtualBox- comparatively slower, > but about the best for what it is. The only other in the same league as VBox > is linux-kvm (6:7 between them).
It's not entirely true that an OS has to have support for Xen to run under it. It's true for paravirtualized guests. However, if your hardware has VT-x support Xen can do full virtualization. It's not as fast as paravirtualization, but I'm successfully using it on one system to run an unmodified Windows XP installation as a guest OS. What's unique about VirtualBox is it can do full virtualization on old hardware that doesn't have VT-x support. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
