On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Peter Ross <peter.r...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I read through an older threat I kept in my archive. It started like this: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Udo Rader wrote: > > As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors: >> >> * bhyve >> * KVM >> * QEMU >> * VirtualBox >> > > .. and later Xen was mentioned. > > I ask myself which of the solutions are most mature at the moment and > immediately usable in production. > > Reason is a potential company move from VMware ESXi/Centos(6/7) with some > critical Windows 2008 and 2012 IIS/.NET applications) involved. > > While most of open source may go into FreeBSD jails, we have a few > CentOS6/7 boxes with proprietary software we have to keep, as well as the > Windows VMs to maintain (there is a long term effort to move them to Open > Source too but the final migration of all may be years away). > > We may phase out ESXi gradually, or just keep it, depending on the > performance and maturity of FreeBSD based solutions. > > I have experience with Linux on VirtualBox and it worked well if the load > was not high but the performance wasn't too good when under stress (but it > never crashed, I might add). > > Which of the solutions are worth testing? Do you have recommendations? > > I am thinking of server software and "containerisation" only, so USB > passthrough or PCI etc. is not really important. > > Stability, performance and resource utilisation (e.g. possible > over-allocation of RAM) are matter most. > VBox is fine, it works well and really has all the features of vitalization of the big 3 except for clustering and a few side things. I've been using bhyve and I like it. I have no stability issues on dozens of guests some with a lot of IO net and disk. I had hoped VPS[1] would make it in, but that seems to have stalled. [1] http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/ -- Adam _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
