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The FreeBSD hypervisor using VirtualBox

    

VirtualBox is a virtualization software that allows running several OSes on a single host machine. It was first a free VMware Workstation-like tools but has grown quite a bit now. You can now run virtual machines headless, like you do with Xen or KVM. Here’s a little tour on setting up an hypervisor using VirtualBox on FreeBSD 9. BTW: Why FreeBSD? Because it features ZFS filesystem version 5 and ZFS pool version 28.

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Share UFS and ZFS on FreeBSD 9

    

On my way for a new experiment, I want to share a UFS and a ZFS partitions on a single disk using FreeBSD 9. Although it is a quite arguable configuration, it is quite simple achieve.

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Booting FreeBSD from ZFS

    

Here are my notes on how to configure a full ZFS-based FreeBSD system. In this particular case, the system is “FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Thu May 12 15:34:46 UTC 2011” and it runs on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 (Intel Atom N450) with 1GB of RAM. This is just a P.O.C. as it is said that ZFS would required at least 2GB of RAM to perform nicely.

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FreeBSD 8 on Dell XPS M1330

    

I have a Virtual Lab to setup and my Dell XPS M1330 has 8GB of RAM. Let’s see what we can do with FreeBSD on this…

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