[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:45 PM 6/6/2007, Sean Murphy wrote:
Is anyone running virtualization of FreeBSD servers on VMware or
other virtualization software? What experiences have you had, good
or bad?
Been wanting to ask the same... I've heard of virt' software for some
time but didn't realize what it could really do. Then on a tip, I
started playing with micros$$ts Virtual PC a couple weeks ago. Wow!
It runs windoze 2000 and FreeBSD apparently fine on a windoze 2000
host. In the last couple weeks I've been doing a lot of
experimentation with FreeBSD and Samba and windoze that I've been
procrastinating about for lack of a spare box to run things on. Very
impressive for free stuff from the evil empire :)
But from what I've heard, VMware has better performance. And there
are some things in ports (qemu?) also. For my purposes Billy's
product is working well, but I'd like to hear of better things, esp
those that run on windoze, which I'm stuck with for my desktop boxen.
-RW
The pecking order works like so IMHO under Windows:
1. VMWare.
2. M$ VPC.
3. Qemu.
-Vmware has the best performance overall from what I've seen, and has
64-bit support on 64-bit processors, so it wins hands down.
-M$ VPC has better performance than Qemu from what I've seen, but only
has 32-bit support, so that's out.
-Getting Qemu started on Windows (at least for me), was a pain in the
a$$. I eventually gave up because it was so slow and the hardware
virtualization wasn't that great.
I run CURRENT and 6.2-RELEASE on my desktop under Windows because
hardware support for all my devices isn't quite there yet, and for
development. It's ok, except when I do CPU intensive tasks, where the
virtual CPU clock per VM skews a lot/slows down, and this screws up
shutting down the VMs (they get stuck before FS syncing's started).
Solution is to run ntpdate before shutdown, to update the VM time.
I'm running VMware server on XP x64 with 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo
6700 CPU.
-Garrett
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