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FreeBSD Gets Official Support As VMware ESX Guest
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."
Just wondering if they'd ever support FreeBSD as a host O/S (for more recent versions of vmware).
I suppose Linux will have to do for the meantime. The trouble is which linux distro? Looks like I'd have to try CentOS.
Is there any hosting company that provides FreeBSD virtual servers with control-panel functionality similar to those provided by linode.com?
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 UML is slower than Xen, Virtuozzo or FreeBSD's jail, but I think we need something similar to UML in order to provide these features. I'm currently using Debian and I may never return to FreeBSD until something like this is available. Sad really, given I've been a FreeBSD fan since 2.x.