On 12/20/2015 09:15 AM, Peter Ross 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.
two thoughts: first, PCI passthru is a nice thing if you want to directly address NICs, which again is a nice feature for virtualized servers relying in almost native network throughput. and second, but you are probably aware of that already, IIRC Xen dom0 support is quite new & lacks some features (http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0) _______________________________________________ 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"
