Pete French (petefrench) writes: > So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement to > see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised servers. > I have not done this before personally, but I notice from post here > that it doesnt seem uncommon, and I see Xen related commits flowing > past, so I am guessing it is doable. > > So, for running 8 or 9 STABLE can anyone recommend which hypervisor > works best, and is 8 or 9 better as the OS to run ? Am doing a bit > of research myself, but nothing beats persoanl experience in these > matters!
Have been running FreeBSD in production as a hypervisor and a guest under VirtualBox for a couple of years now. Am also running it under Ganeti/XEN and Ganeti/KVM with success. Note other comments in the thread about virtio. Setting KVM to use "native" io also helps quite a bit. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ 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"