I know Hyper-V support has been improved from 10.3 as Azure has that custom port that MS contributed back.
But KMS/Quemu interests me as any 2016 IT professional uses virtualization and VMare Workstation is discontinued and in life support mode and sucks greatly.
If you don't have specific requirements necessitating another solution (a longer support window, perhaps), I really can't recommend Qubes highly enough. You can run conventional Xen HVMs alongside Qubes AppVMs which 1. are damned fast, 2. can utilize shared templates for disk space efficiency and easier updates, 3. have tools for quickly and securely sharing files or clipboard contents and 4. allow you to intelligently mix and manage color-coded windows in a single task bar. These features are available wi
Ok, yeah GPU passthrough is still a no-go for Qubes right now. It sounded like you might've been in the market for a general workhorse hypervisor, but 3d gaming is the one area in which it's definitely lacking.
On the other hand, I should protest that Qubes does make for a superior casual gaming and retro/oldschool gaming experience. There's something to be said for running 2d Steam games (ones that don't have Linux compatibility), Fallout 2 and other oldschool Windows games in their own window sitting in
I may take a look? I want to leave Windows but am so dependent on it. I do not want to deal with wine and need nested nested virtualization for my mcse Hyper-V labs to learn clustering. Yeah laugh at me on last bit.
VMware workstation which is slow on my PC is being discontinued leaving me with just Hyper-V on Windows 10... But hey MS contributed awesome Hyper-V guest from azure that made it to FreeBSD 11:-)
I switched over from Virtualbox (I only ever tried VMware player, which I found pretty underwhelming), so I can't provide you with any useful comparisons.
It's all Xen under the hood, if you've any experience with that.
AppVMs, which use PV drivers (maybe PVH? I forget) and various performance tricks, are stupid fast to the point where you'll regularly forget that they're not native. Or maybe ~5 second boot times are the norm on most platforms now, but they certainly weren't on Virtualbox (even with PV dr
I'm a bit confused by KMS/Qemu. Do you mean KVM or KMS? Kernel Mode Switching (KMS) has been in FreeBSD since 10.0 and the graphics drivers are now very close to parity with Linux. If you mean KVM, FreeBSD ships with bhyve, the BSD Hypervisor, which is a legacy-free Type II hypervisor. It happily runs Linux and FreeBSD as guests and will run Windows Vista or newer with a little bit of fiddling. VirtualBox also works well on FreeBSD, if you want something more desktop friendly and FreeBSD works as a Xen
I meant KMS. From what I see it is no longer actively developed and quite behind the Linux version (correct me if I am wrong).
This is just for desktop use at home as a workstation. I need type 1 speed and guest support and embedded or nested virtualization to learn some labs with clustering with other solutions like Hyper-V and VMware ESX. Last, I want to run my steam games too with full hardware acceleration.
It still is on life support with bug fixes but and maybe a few fiddling with updating some guests but it is no longer actively developed. After playing with a faster type 1 hypervisor and seeing how quick and light it was close to bare metal I got spoiled. VMWare Workstation and Virtualbox is sluggish and always gets the cpu fans going with many bugs with emulating all the hardare
For FreeBSD, they have a different VM solution called Bhyve (pronounced Beehive). That, and also, they have jails for Debian and Gentoo distros of Linux.
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I know Hyper-V support has been improved from 10.3 as Azure has that custom port that MS contributed back.
But KMS/Quemu interests me as any 2016 IT professional uses virtualization and VMare Workstation is discontinued and in life support mode and sucks greatly.
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I am talking about KMS and Freebsd as a host :-)
Yes part of KVM was ported to the FreeBSD kernel. For now stuck on Windows 10 with Hyper-V for games. KMS provided GPU and hardware pass thru
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On the other hand, I should protest that Qubes does make for a superior casual gaming and retro/oldschool gaming experience. There's something to be said for running 2d Steam games (ones that don't have Linux compatibility), Fallout 2 and other oldschool Windows games in their own window sitting in
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I may take a look? I want to leave Windows but am so dependent on it. I do not want to deal with wine and need nested nested virtualization for my mcse Hyper-V labs to learn clustering. Yeah laugh at me on last bit.
VMware workstation which is slow on my PC is being discontinued leaving me with just Hyper-V on Windows 10 ... But hey MS contributed awesome Hyper-V guest from azure that made it to FreeBSD 11 :-)
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AppVMs, which use PV drivers (maybe PVH? I forget) and various performance tricks, are stupid fast to the point where you'll regularly forget that they're not native. Or maybe ~5 second boot times are the norm on most platforms now, but they certainly weren't on Virtualbox (even with PV dr
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I meant KMS. From what I see it is no longer actively developed and quite behind the Linux version (correct me if I am wrong).
This is just for desktop use at home as a workstation. I need type 1 speed and guest support and embedded or nested virtualization to learn some labs with clustering with other solutions like Hyper-V and VMware ESX. Last, I want to run my steam games too with full hardware acceleration.
Linus tech tips got me interested in this with Unraid which is a distro of Linux KMS/QEMU with rea [youtube.com]
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Since when is VMware Workstation discontinued? Show me the proof.
Here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... [theregister.co.uk]
It still is on life support with bug fixes but and maybe a few fiddling with updating some guests but it is no longer actively developed. After playing with a faster type 1 hypervisor and seeing how quick and light it was close to bare metal I got spoiled. VMWare Workstation and Virtualbox is sluggish and always gets the cpu fans going with many bugs with emulating all the hardare
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