I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this. I would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before proceeding:
1. As I understand it you can install Virtual Box from the ports collection. But then I see the instructions in the Handbook: To launch VirtualBox, type from a Xorg session: % VirtualBox So am I to assume the only way to run Virtual Box is to have Xorg installed and running on the FreeBSD server? Which is a drag because my current FreeBSD servers are exactly that, servers, and do not have the fancy video cards, monitors, etc.. to run Xorg. Is there an alternative to running the interface from Xorg. I'm a command line fanatic when it comes to servers. Or would I be able to install Xvnc or something like that and run it from one of my Windows 7 machines which has all the fancy video capabilities? 2. Once installed, I will be able to install something like Fedora or openSUSE? These will only be installed as server so I can run databases like MySQL in the Linux environment. The client I'm working for insists on using SUSE...no FreeBSD allowed. They think it's poison and are very biased on this so there's no talking them out of it. I need to gain experience using these databases on Linux, not FreeBSD. 3. I'm going to buy a 1 TB SATA drive for this setup. It will be running on an AMD64 server with FreeBSD 9.x or whatever is the latest release as of this weekend. 4. There is also a Plan 'B' to go the other way. Since I already have two i7 machines running Windows 7, perhaps it might be better to install the Windows version of Virtual Box or even VMWare and create my instances of Linux on one or even both of these machines. Any advice would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ 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"
