FreeBSD Gets Official Support As VMware ESX Guest 31
An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD 4.9 has become the first non-commercial open-source operating system to be supported as a VMware ESX guest. This allows enterprise users to benefit from a powerful open-source OS with the benefit of subscription free binary updates. This also solves a number of enterprise support issues around lack of hardware vendor support and issues around using non-commercial operating systems on SAN fabrics as the SAN access is abstracted through VMware, which the SAN supplier is more likely to have certified."
How about VMWare host? (Score:3, Interesting)
I suppose Linux will have to do for the meantime. The trouble is which linux distro? Looks like I'd have to try CentOS.
Re:How about VMWare host? (Score:2)
(I've never had trouble compiling their modules)
Binaries on linux, yes.. BSD, no (Score:2)
If you watch kernel/gcc versions yes, they will host on linux just fine.
However, Having BSD as a host option for GSX or workstation would be really nice. ( ESX comes with its own paired down/customized linux kernel as its host, so thats sort of moot point ).
While support older versions of workstation are in the ports tree, ive never got it to work.. and GSX never has had a port..
but.. it appears QEMU works pretty well under BSD.. now if we can just get some good graphical tools to manage Vmachines with..
Re:How about VMWare host? (Score:2)
If you can afford ESX, getting RHEL just for the support and/or the approval of the big boss is the way to go.
That said, the host OS will be stripped down to the bare minimum for both performance and security issues by anyone who is capable of managing ESX properly.
I agree on a technical level, one of the *BSDs would be better, though not by much. It's not like deciding between Lin
Re:How about VMWare host? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:How about VMWare host? (Score:4, Informative)
Some actual facts (Score:1)
Speaking of virtual machines... (Score:1, Interesting)
By control-panel functionality, I don't mean something like plex or ensim or hsphere. I mean something that'll let me create, resize, copy disk images which can be made available to the OS as a virtual hd which can be mounted. And the ability to reinstall the OS from scratch. And the ability to access the console during boot, even before sshd is up. And...
I know U
Re:Speaking of virtual machines... (Score:2)
Multi-image *BSD is dying (Score:1, Funny)
Awww, hell with it. How do the trolls make this stuff up so quickly?
How was that a troll? (Score:1, Insightful)
Some actual facts (Score:1)
NetCraft still uses FreeBSD (Score:1, Redundant)
Kind of makes all your cut and paste assults on FreeBSD a big waste of time.
Requiem for the FUD (Score:4, Informative)
FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004) [internetnews.com]
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004) [netcraft.com]
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004) [slashdot.org]
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."
NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004) [slashdot.org]
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004) [netbsd.org]
OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004) [eweek.com]
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004) [newsforge.com]
*BSD in general:
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;) [keltia.net]
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004) [mi2g.com]
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
Re:Requiem for the FUD (Score:1)
No, no, come on... As far as I can understand, FUD doesn't really fit the BSD style. :)
And this makes BSD more beautiful, and more fun.
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
Re:Requiem for the FUD (Score:2)
in quality, actuality, smallity(?) and number of
both users and developers.
http://mirbsd.de/ for you. The new 4th BSD.
(I like that mascot, w00t)