> > What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware > > This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and > free.
That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more wide spread. > > What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended > > for your application, what resources you have available around you, > > etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well > > supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent > > knwoledge of ubuntu. > > I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and I > resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on bare metal > and virtualize simple installations of the "unpleasant" legacy OSes without > making my fingers too dirty. You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are installing any OS on a virtual machine, it is as dirty as installing on a bare hardware: you need to learn how to install, tune and secure that new OS... Good luck, olivier _______________________________________________ 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"
