On 05/07/2012 11:33, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman <[email protected]> wrote:
FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware
Hi Kaya,
Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance)
of current version of FreeBSD? I've been debating on switching from
Gentoo to FreeBSD for a while now, and would love to find a ready made
appliance (just basic uncustomized server install) that I could start
with...
We use Gentoo host + Linux-vservers (+grsec/pax) and very satisfied.
Linux-vservers gives you something similar to "jails", although it's
meant to look a little more like full virtualisation than jails does
(bear in mind I don't have "jails" experience though)
There are plenty of tools included with linux-vservers to clone, build
and maintain your individual "machines". It's a complete enough
"virtualisation" that you can say boot a centos image under your gentoo
host (or whatever). It's also extremely lightweight, so there is almost
zero overhead. It's a little weak on areas where you need direct access
to hardware, but there are generally acceptable workarounds - also you
can't run completely different operating systems since it's not a full
virtualisation solution
One nice benefit is that all images are just a directory containing your
linux installation, so it's very easy to backup/snapshot/restore/drop in
and fix something you bolloxed up/clone to a new machine.
Just my 2p.
Cheers
Ed W
