Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > > there's no libvirt for bhyve yet, which turns some people off. > Wrong. See: https://libvirt.org/drvbhyve.html http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve libvirt/bhyve is definitely not as polished as libvirt/KVM. It defini

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Gustau Pérez
>Hi all, > >I found the source of the problem. Once upon a time I compiled my > kernel with OFED support (WITH_OFED in /etc/src.conf). That installed > $INCLUDE/rdma/rdma_cma.h, which at the time of the installation (haven't > checked now) were missing the rdma_addrinfo structs. > >Mo

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Gustau Pérez
On 01/04/2015 18:51, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > El 01/04/15 a les 17.28, Gustau Pérez ha escrit: > >Hi Roger, >>I'm trying to build xen-tools in my laptop. It runs this: >> >> FreeBSD portgus 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #4 >> r279875+f0e745a(HEAD): Sat Mar 14 16:55

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 01/04/15 a les 17.28, Gustau Pérez ha escrit: >Hi Roger, > >I'm trying to build xen-tools in my laptop. It runs this: > > FreeBSD portgus 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #4 > r279875+f0e745a(HEAD): Sat Mar 14 16:55:11 CET 2015 > >the build was done with gcc48,

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Vixie
Udo Rader wrote: > ... > > Raw disks are fine with us as we do not overprovision storage (at least > not yet). nfs, with the server running zfs "raid10", and the guest as an nfs client, using the "bridge" network, is as fast for normal file i/o (like un-tarring a big file) as native zfs on the

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Vixie
Udo Rader wrote: > ... > > I understand, that bhyve is native to BSD and will probably be the most > effective. But given its relatively 'young age', is it production ready > for (non nested) x86/amd64 linux guests? there's no libvirt for bhyve yet, which turns some people off. (not me, i don't

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Gustau Pérez
· On 01/04/2015 12:41, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit: >> Hi all, >> >> first please excuse if this may be a FAQ, but even though I am a long >> time linux admin (~1996), I am quite new to the *BSD world and I am >> trying to evaluate if FreeBSD fits our virt

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Gerd Hafenbrack
On 2015-04-01 16:46, Roger Pau Monné wrote: Hello, El 01/04/15 a les 16.27, Gerd Hafenbrack ha escrit: ... The documentation for FreeBSD as Dom0 seems outdated anyway to me. The document was last modified on the 15th of March 2015. I know things move fast in the IT industry, but I wouldn't ca

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, El 01/04/15 a les 16.27, Gerd Hafenbrack ha escrit: > On 2015-04-01 16:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> El 01/04/15 a les 14.59, Udo Rader ha escrit: >>> ... thanks for pointing Xen out. I was indeed not aware of Xen >>> running on >>> FreeBSD, an intriguing (and well known) alternative. >>> >

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Gerd Hafenbrack
On 2015-04-01 16:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: El 01/04/15 a les 14.59, Udo Rader ha escrit: ... thanks for pointing Xen out. I was indeed not aware of Xen running on FreeBSD, an intriguing (and well known) alternative. The wiki says, that migrate/save/restore are missing from the *BSD port. Is th

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 01/04/15 a les 14.59, Udo Rader ha escrit: > On 04/01/2015 12:41 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit: >>> As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors: >>> >>> * bhyve >>> * KVM >>> * QEMU >>> * VirtualBox >> >> Make that 5: >>

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Udo Rader
On 04/01/2015 01:43 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > Bhyve only supports raw disk images.. I'ts quite early in it's > developement life so some features may not > be present yet. thanks for your insights. what you write about bhyve sounds quite good, so I'll give that a try as well. Raw disks are fi

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Udo Rader
On 04/01/2015 12:41 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit: >> As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors: >> >> * bhyve >> * KVM >> * QEMU >> * VirtualBox > > Make that 5: > * Xen: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0 > > Altoug

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/1/15 6:30 PM, Udo Rader wrote: Hi all, first please excuse if this may be a FAQ, but even though I am a long time linux admin (~1996), I am quite new to the *BSD world and I am trying to evaluate if FreeBSD fits our virtualization needs. So, for my many questions: As far as my homework di

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit: > Hi all, > > first please excuse if this may be a FAQ, but even though I am a long > time linux admin (~1996), I am quite new to the *BSD world and I am > trying to evaluate if FreeBSD fits our virtualization needs. > > So, for my many questions: >

available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-04-01 Thread Udo Rader
Hi all, first please excuse if this may be a FAQ, but even though I am a long time linux admin (~1996), I am quite new to the *BSD world and I am trying to evaluate if FreeBSD fits our virtualization needs. So, for my many questions: As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four