Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 09:34 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: I am from Linux (Debian & Ubuntu) and I will have to intensively use FreeBSD on servers (DNS, Database, Routing...) I would like to install a FreeBSD on my laptop (Dell Inspiron, or some Asus not defined yet) and then virtualize a lot (KVM s

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 24 August 2011 08:48:30 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > > Reference: > > From: Dick Hoogendijk > > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 > > Message-id: <4e54d165.7090...@nagual.nl> > > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:56:16AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 08/24/2011 11:41 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > >Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > >There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only works > >with FreeBSD guests. > > T

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:41:13AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Probably start by installing PC-BSD -- that's based on FreeBSD but > tailored to providing the sort of desktop environment you'ld want on a > laptop. That's a pretty broad statement. You might want to include another "probably"

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > In my particular case, I think if I must use NetBSD to virtualize a > FreeBSD, it's cheaper (in time) to stick with Linux and launch a KVM with > FreeBSD inside. > Virtualbox isn't slow when compared against XEN, it's rather the o

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 03:33 PM, RW wrote: > I was reading I think it wasnebsd-us...@betbsd.org a few days back, > quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, > it seems NetBSD may have more support support there&/or with Xen. IIRC the Xen project itself provided host support for

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:30 +0200 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > I was reading I think it was nebsd-us...@betbsd.org a few days back, > quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, > it seems NetBSD may have more support support there &/or with Xen. IIRC the Xen project itself pro

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Dick Hoogendijk > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 > Message-id: <4e54d165.7090...@nagual.nl> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: > > > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > > There's

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only works with FreeBSD guests. There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest OSes as a standard client application and it te

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 11:41 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Probably start by installing PC-BSD -- that's based on FreeBSD but tailored to providing the sort of desktop environment you'ld want on a laptop. I made search before posting and it also seems a good directoin to take. Virtualization is actually a

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/08/2011 07:34, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I am from Linux (Debian & Ubuntu) and I will have to intensively use > FreeBSD on servers (DNS, Database, Routing...) > > I would like to install a FreeBSD on my laptop (Dell Inspiron, or some > Asus not defined yet) and then virtualize a lot (