On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:55:20 +0100 Pete French <petefre...@ingresso.co.uk> wrote:
> > - Lack of proper support for a decent hypervisor for > > virtualisation. We can't make a hypervisor out of freebsd, if there > > are no such virtualisations available like XEN, kvm or something > > similar, that just works out of the box. > > What do you need that VirtualBox doesn't provide ? I used to bemoan > the lack of a hypervisor too, but vince VBox arrived in FreeBSD I > have had no complaints. I use it to run Windows instances both as > desktop clients and also servers, and it works beautifully. Combined > with a ZVOL underneath (and hence all the delights of ZFS snapshots) > it';s a great solution. Yes, virtualbox is not that bad. However, to get some really nice features, you need the non-free version. Also, we can use citrix's xenserver's management tool to manage non-citrix xen clusters, because the API is same. With that we get a management tool for our clusters, which is really nice. Also I didn't know that virtualbox is capable of building clusters of nodes and bouncing VMs among nodes to balance load, and capable of doing such things, i might be lacking a bit here, sorry. > > -pete. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
