Hi all, I've been using VMWare on Linux for quite some time, but I am fed up to the gills with the hassles I have to go through every time the box needs to be rebooted. I don't want to start a flame war, so let's just say that I'm already convinced of migrating to a solution that I don't need a Linux host for. I need to be able to run multiple instances of FreeBSD on a single box, but I *need* IPv6 to work on the virtual machines. I've read that this is now possible under 7.2. Is this really true? What I'm looking to do, is set up a new host as IPv6 only. I don't want to use dedicated hardware if I don't have to, so I'm asking about jails first. Operationally, are there any success stories regarding v6 and jails that anyone could share? Steve
Steve Bertrand wrote:> Hi all, > > I've been using VMWare on Linux for quite some time, but I am fed up to > the gills with the hassles I have to go through every time the box needs > to be rebooted. I don't want to start a flame war, so let's just say > that I'm already convinced of migrating to a solution that I don't need > a Linux host for. > > I need to be able to run multiple instances of FreeBSD on a single box, > but I *need* IPv6 to work on the virtual machines. > > I've read that this is now possible under 7.2. Is this really true? > > What I'm looking to do, is set up a new host as IPv6 only. I don't want > to use dedicated hardware if I don't have to, so I'm asking about jails > first. > > Operationally, are there any success stories regarding v6 and jails that > anyone could share?I am not using IPv6, but it works. The freebsd-jail@ mailinglist is better place to ask. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2009-January/000702.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2008-December/000631.html Miroslav Lachman
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi,> I've been using VMWare on Linux for quite some time, but I am fed up to > the gills with the hassles I have to go through every time the box needs > to be rebooted. I don't want to start a flame war, so let's just say > that I'm already convinced of migrating to a solution that I don't need > a Linux host for. > > I need to be able to run multiple instances of FreeBSD on a single box, > but I *need* IPv6 to work on the virtual machines. > > I've read that this is now possible under 7.2. Is this really true?yes.> What I'm looking to do, is set up a new host as IPv6 only. I don't want > to use dedicated hardware if I don't have to, so I'm asking about jails > first. > > Operationally, are there any success stories regarding v6 and jails that > anyone could share?Apart from that a FreeBSD Cluster system has been using it since the beta time of the patch w/o a crash, a few people on freebsd-jail@ who had been using it. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb The greatest risk is not taking one.
I just want to throw out a heart-felt thank you, congratulations and excellent work to all those who had their hand in making the jail framework so completely flexible (particularly on the IP side of things). Kudos, and thank you all. IPv6 works flawlessly! Steve