On 05/07/2012 11:33, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware
Hi Kaya,
Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance) of current version of FreeBSD? I've been debating on switching from Gentoo to FreeBSD for a while now, and would love to find a ready made appliance (just basic uncustomized server install) that I could start with...
We use Gentoo host + Linux-vservers (+grsec/pax) and very satisfied.
Linux-vservers gives you something similar to "jails", although it's
meant to look a little more like full virtualisation than jails does
(bear in mind I don't have "jails" experience though)
There are plenty of tools included with linux-vservers to clone, build and maintain your individual "machines". It's a complete enough "virtualisation" that you can say boot a centos image under your gentoo host (or whatever). It's also extremely lightweight, so there is almost zero overhead. It's a little weak on areas where you need direct access to hardware, but there are generally acceptable workarounds - also you can't run completely different operating systems since it's not a full virtualisation solution
One nice benefit is that all images are just a directory containing your linux installation, so it's very easy to backup/snapshot/restore/drop in and fix something you bolloxed up/clone to a new machine.
Just my 2p.
Cheers
Ed W