Hypervisor ( was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? )
- Lack of proper support for a decent hypervisor for virtualisation. We can't make a hypervisor out of freebsd, if there are no such virtualisations available like XEN, kvm or something similar, that just works out of the box. What do you need that VirtualBox doesn't provide ? I used to bemoan the lack of a hypervisor too, but vince VBox arrived in FreeBSD I have had no complaints. I use it to run Windows instances both as desktop clients and also servers, and it works beautifully. Combined with a ZVOL underneath (and hence all the delights of ZFS snapshots) it';s a great solution. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hypervisor ( was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? )
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:55:20 +0100 Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote: - Lack of proper support for a decent hypervisor for virtualisation. We can't make a hypervisor out of freebsd, if there are no such virtualisations available like XEN, kvm or something similar, that just works out of the box. What do you need that VirtualBox doesn't provide ? I used to bemoan the lack of a hypervisor too, but vince VBox arrived in FreeBSD I have had no complaints. I use it to run Windows instances both as desktop clients and also servers, and it works beautifully. Combined with a ZVOL underneath (and hence all the delights of ZFS snapshots) it';s a great solution. Yes, virtualbox is not that bad. However, to get some really nice features, you need the non-free version. Also, we can use citrix's xenserver's management tool to manage non-citrix xen clusters, because the API is same. With that we get a management tool for our clusters, which is really nice. Also I didn't know that virtualbox is capable of building clusters of nodes and bouncing VMs among nodes to balance load, and capable of doing such things, i might be lacking a bit here, sorry. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hypervisor ( was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? )
Yes, virtualbox is not that bad. However, to get some really nice features, you need the non-free version. Also, we can use citrix's xenserver's management tool to manage non-citrix xen clusters, because the API is same. With that we get a management tool for our clusters, which is really nice. OK, makes sennse. Also I didn't know that virtualbox is capable of building clusters of nodes and bouncing VMs among nodes to balance load, and capable of doing such things, i might be lacking a bit here, sorry. I belive if you have an iscsi storage backend for a runnign node it can be moved transparently to another physsical hardware node without stopping running, but I havent tried it myself I ahve to admit. cheers, -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
