On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone tried OpenBSD on Virtualbox?. Any reason why the OpenBSD > kernel might be more problematic to virtualize then Linux?. >
Yes, and OpenBSD works only on VT-x hardware. Why ? Because software virtualization in VirtualBox is incomplete, and it is very hard to make it complete. Since all developers switched to hardware VT anyway, there is no one to do the job. > I´ve read that for some reason that some in the OpenBSD community are > very anti-virtualization and tell people to ´just run OpenBSD on real > hardware"... > They believe virtualization hurts security. I believe virtualization is necessary for people to try out new OS, including OpenBSD (else everyone would still be running Windows-only, me included). > Having Virtualbox running on OpenBSD as host would also be nice... > imho. (ie install OpenBSD due to its alleged increased security to run > some server, then install Virtualbox on it to run Linux and Windows > virtualized, if needed). > Porting VirtualBox to new OS (to OpenBSD) may easily take a year. Now compare OpenBSD (with it's 5,000 user base) to Android (with it's 400 Million users), and wanna bet which OS will get supported first ? I bet Android will move to the desktop/x86 platforms. That said: Contributors welcome :) -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
