xen or virtualbox or vmware ?
iH, Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management and just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old. So far thinking of going netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better? linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for] linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?
Hi On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: iH, Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management and just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old. So far thinking of going netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better? linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for] linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. If your end result is to run FreeBSD, why not use jails? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: iH, Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management and just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old. So far thinking of going netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better? linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for] linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. ]Peter[ Building my own similar setup right now actually. I've got an OpenSolaris, NetBSD, and FreeBSD cd burned and ready to go. In days gone by, you'd answer use Xen of course. However, VBox has made a great deal of progress lately making my decision more difficult. At this point, I'm leaning towards OpenSolaris because of Dom0 support and ZFS. At work I use Debian Lenny w/ Xen and ganeti which is good. However, I'm used to better documentation and a more consistent layout which IMO the Penguin sucks at, and I mean get ready for a world class donkey punch because if you're not already a skilled user you'll need to become one to figure out any sort of non-standard customization you might want. Also have to use grub when running xen. Grub config is pretty easy but full of gotchas. As also mentioned, jails are great and way more efficient than either xen or vbox, but sometimes you can't run fbsd. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?
Hi On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: iH, Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management and just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old. So far thinking of going netbsd - xen - freebsd/whatever [if it'll work] or would the following be better? linux - xen - freebsd/whatever or freebsd - virtualbox - freebsd/whatever or [don't really care for] linux - vmware workstation - freebsd/whatever [my generic hardware doesn't work with esx[i]] Has anyone done something similar, especially the xen type of setup or would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. If your end result is to run FreeBSD, why not use jails? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html -- Glen Barber Have jails now, wanted to try something new - and prolly run freebsd/windows/linux/whatever on that box also for the fun of it. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
