When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Peter Brezny
I'm a die hard FreeBSD user. For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in production on all of my servers. Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for popular VM

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Simon Chang
Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for popular VM applications. I hear your pain. However, VMware is a commercial company one of whose responsibilities is their bottom line. I have

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread alexus
there is always XEN or worse case scenario is jail On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for popular VM

RE: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Peter Brezny
Yeah, But Jail offers no real segmentation of resource utilization and certainly no simple management interface to hand to customers. At least not back in 2006 when I was using them on a 4.x system, where none of the jails survived a simple upgrade (from like 4.9 to 4.10 or something I don't

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Outback Dingo
rumour has it VirtualBox might have FreeBSD as host OS coming... and i wount admit i said this :) but i saw a post about a solaris build being available, and it stated FreeBSD maybe coming soon. also you can run XEN or KVM on HVM capable systems and get away from that VMWARE Pain also VirtualBox

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Peter Brezny wrote: I'm a die hard FreeBSD user. For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in production on all of my servers. Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for