On 04/19/2013 7:37 am, Bill Tillman wrote:
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.
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I just setup a FreeBSD 9.1p2 server to run Virtual Box myself, you don't
need X, you can launch machines with VBoxHeadless --startvm "VM NAME".
(using VNC to connect to the consoles of them) Creating and configuring
them takes a bit more, and as I am only on the second day of getting
this figured out, I am not the best person to go more into detail. I
actually created my vms on windows moved them over to FreeBSD the server
to run them. It can all be done command line, just takes a while to
learn.
I am running mine on a AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T Processor, with 16G
ram, so far I have had three VMs running at once, two FreeBSD 9.1p2 and
one windows 2008r2, 3G ram assigned to each. Performance so far has
been great, I will have it down to one VM in a few days, as I will
convert the two FreeBSD VMs into jails, and just be left with the
windows 2008r2 vm.
the disks in my system are 2 Sata3 1TB volumes, with FreeBSD host
installed on ZFS in mirrored zpool. Also running the 2 FreeBSD VMs from
this mirror as well, and the sytem drive of the Windows server. The
Windows server has a second data drive, that is mounted off 4 500MB
SATA2 drives in a zfs raidz. Disk performance is better than what I had
testing this setup on Windows 7 with Virtual box, using a hardware raid
10 on the 500MB drives and hardware mirror on the 1TB drives.
I intend to migrate the windows data drive from a virtual disk to an
iSCSI disk pointed to the same 500MB raidz once I get the FreeBSD iSCSI
target setup figured out. This should hopefully get a little more speed
out of the setup.
Unfortunately as this setup is still in its early stages, I can't attest
to how stable it will be.
--
Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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