On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Rainer Duffner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 > schrieb Pete French <[email protected]>: > >> So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement >> to see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised >> servers. I have not done this before personally, but I notice from >> post here that it doesnt seem uncommon, and I see Xen related commits >> flowing past, so I am guessing it is doable. >> >> So, for running 8 or 9 STABLE can anyone recommend which hypervisor >> works best, and is 8 or 9 better as the OS to run ? Am doing a bit >> of research myself, but nothing beats persoanl experience in these >> matters! > > > > AFAIK, there are no VMware-tools for FreeBSD9 (yet). > So, if you need to use ESXi/vSphere, then stay with 8.3 for the time > being. You can use the open-vmtools package which is in ports . > There are KVM-drivers for FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 in the ports. > > Also, full, native support for MSFT-HyperV is coming to FreeBSD9. > > I wouldn'd bother with the free VMware-server. Agree here it's very slow compared to all of the others . > > AFAIK, the latest vcenter has a web-console, so you don't need a > Windows VM just to manage your virtualized FreeBSD instances. > Hopefully, someone else will have to do all the heavy-lifting of > maintaining all the virtualization-infrastructure. > VMware with vsphere server , another product , seperate from esxi, provides a web based console but I still use the windows desktop tool , as it works more consistently then the web tool. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
