<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1" standalone="no"?> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project $FreeBSD$ --> <chapter id="virtualization"> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Murray</firstname> <surname>Stokely</surname> <contrib>Contributed by </contrib> </author> </authorgroup> <!-- Mar 2007 --> </chapterinfo> <title>Virtualization</title> <sect1 id="virtualization-synopsis"> <title>Synopsis</title> <para>Virtualization software allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same computer. Such software systems for PCs often involve a host operating system which runs the virtualization software and supports any number of guest operating systems.</para> <para>After reading this chapter, you will know:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>The difference between a host operating system and a guest operating system.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>How to install &os; on an &intel;-based &apple; &macintosh; computer.</para> </listitem> <!-- Note: There is no working/end-user ready Xen support for FreeBSD as of 07-2010. Hide all information regarding Xen under FreeBSD. <listitem> <para>How to install &os; on Linux with <application>&xen;</application>.</para> </listitem> --> <listitem> <para>How to install &os; on µsoft.windows; with <application>Virtual PC</application>.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>How to tune a &os; system for best performance under virtualization.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>Before reading this chapter, you should:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>Understand the basics of &unix; and &os; (<xref linkend="basics"/>).</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Know how to install &os; (<xref linkend="install"/>).</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Know how to set up your network connection (<xref linkend="advanced-networking"/>).</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Know how to install additional third-party software (<xref linkend="ports"/>).</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect1> <sect1 id="virtualization-guest"> <title>&os; as a Guest OS</title> <sect2 id="virtualization-guest-parallels"> <title>Parallels on MacOS</title> <para><application>Parallels Desktop</application> for &mac; is a commercial software product available for &intel; based &apple; &mac; computers running &macos; 10.4.6 or higher. &os; is a fully supported guest operating system. Once <application>Parallels</application> has been installed on &macos; X, the user must configure a virtual machine and then install the desired guest operating system.</para> <sect3 id="virtualization-guest-parallels-install"> <title>Installing &os; on Parallels/&macos; X</title> <para>The first step in installing &os; on &macos; X/<application>Parallels</application> is to create a new virtual machine for installing &os;. Select <guimenuitem>&os;</guimenuitem> as the <guimenu>Guest OS Type</guimenu> when prompted:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd1"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>And choose a reasonable amount of disk and memory depending on your plans for this virtual &os; instance. 4GB of disk space and 512MB of RAM work well for most uses of &os; under <application>Parallels</application>:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd2"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd3"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd4"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd5"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Select the type of networking and a network interface:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd6"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd7"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Save and finish the configuration:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd8"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd9"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>After your &os; virtual machine has been created, you will need to install &os; on it. This is best done with an official &os; CDROM or with an ISO image downloaded from an official FTP site. When you have the appropriate ISO image on your local &mac; filesystem or a CDROM in your &mac;'s CD drive, click on the disc icon in the bottom right corner of your &os; <application>Parallels</application> window. This will bring up a window that allows you to associate the CDROM drive in your virtual machine with an ISO file on disk or with your real CDROM drive.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd11"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Once you have made this association with your CDROM source, reboot your &os; virtual machine as normal by clicking the reboot icon. <application>Parallels</application> will reboot with a special BIOS that first checks if you have a CDROM just as a normal BIOS would do.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd10"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>In this case it will find the &os; installation media and begin a normal <application>sysinstall</application> based installation as described in <xref linkend="install"/>. You may install, but do not attempt to configure X11 at this time.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd12"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>When you have finished the installation, reboot into your newly installed &os; virtual machine.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/parallels-freebsd13"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> </sect3> <sect3 id="virtualization-guest-parallels-configure"> <title>Configuring &os; on &macos; X/Parallels</title> <para>After &os; has been successfully installed on &macos; X with <application>Parallels</application>, there are a number of configuration steps that can be taken to optimize the system for virtualized operation.</para> <procedure> <step> <title>Set Boot Loader Variables</title> <para>The most important step is to reduce the <option>kern.hz</option> tunable to reduce the CPU utilization of &os; under the <application>Parallels </application> environment. This is accomplished by adding the following line to <filename> /boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>kern.hz=100</programlisting> <para>Without this setting, an idle &os; <application>Parallels</application> guest OS will use roughly 15% of the CPU of a single processor &imac;. After this change the usage will be closer to a mere 5%.</para> </step> <step> <title>Create a New Kernel Configuration File</title> <para>You can remove all of the SCSI, FireWire, and USB device drivers. <application>Parallels</application> provides a virtual network adapter used by the &man.ed.4; driver, so all other network devices except for &man.ed.4; and &man.miibus.4; can be removed from the kernel.</para> </step> <step> <title>Configure Networking</title> <para>The most basic networking setup involves simply using DHCP to connect your virtual machine to the same local area network as your host &mac;. This can be accomplished by adding <literal>ifconfig_ed0="DHCP"</literal> to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>. More advanced networking setups are described in <xref linkend="advanced-networking"/>.</para> </step> </procedure> </sect3> </sect2> <!-- Deactive/hide this section as the instructions in there do NOT work anymore: - FreeBSD 7.0 has reached its EOL a long time ago. - The needed files from www.fsmware.com are not available anymore, as the server is dead. So it is impossible to follow the instructions in here. jkois@FreeBSD.org, 2010-06-18 <sect2 id="virtualization-guest-xen"> <sect2info> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Fukang</firstname> <surname>Chen (Loader)</surname> <contrib>Contributed by </contrib> </author> </authorgroup> </sect2info> <title>&os; with &xen; on Linux</title> <para>The <application>&xen;</application> hypervisor is an open source paravirtualization product which is now supported by the commercial XenSource company. Guest operating systems are known as domU domains, and the host operating system is known as dom0. The first step in running a virtual &os; instance under Linux is to install <application>&xen;</application> for Linux dom0. The host operating system will be a Slackware Linux distribution.</para> <sect3 id="xen-slackware-dom0"> <title>Setup &xen; 3 on Linux dom0</title> <procedure> <step> <title>Download &xen; 3.0 from XenSource</title> <para>Download <ulink url="http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.0.4-1/src.tgz/xen-3.0.4_1-src.tgz">xen-3.0.4_1-src.tgz</ulink> from <ulink url="http://www.xensource.com/"></ulink>.</para> </step> <step> <title>Unpack the tarball</title> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd xen-3.0.4_1-src</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>KERNELS="linux-2.6-xen0 linux-2.6-xenU" make world</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make install</userinput></screen> <note> <para>To re-compile the kernel for dom0:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd xen-3.0.4_1-src/linux-2.6.16.33-xen0</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make menuconfig</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make install</userinput></screen> <para>Older version of <application>&xen;</application> may need to specify <command>make ARCH=xen menuconfig</command></para> </note> </step> <step> <title>Add a menu entry into Grub menu.lst</title> <para>Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and add the following lines:</para> <programlisting>title Xen-3.0.4 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/xen-3.0.4-1.gz dom0_mem=262144 module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.33-xen0 root=/dev/hda1 ro</programlisting> </step> <step> <title>Reboot your computer into &xen;</title> <para>First, edit <filename>/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp</filename>, and add the following line:</para> <programlisting>(network-script 'network-bridge netdev=eth0')</programlisting> <para>Then, we can launch <application>&xen;</application>:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/init.d/xend start</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/init.d/xendomains start</userinput></screen> <para>Our dom0 is running:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>xm list</userinput> Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 256 1 r––––– 54452.9</screen> </step> </procedure> </sect3> <sect3> <title>&os; 7-CURRENT domU</title> <para>Download the &os; domU kernel for <application>&xen; 3.0</application> and disk image from <ulink url="http://www.fsmware.com/">http://www.fsmware.com/</ulink></para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><ulink url="http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/download/kernel-current">kernel-current</ulink></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><ulink url="http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/download/mdroot-7.0.bz2">mdroot-7.0.bz2</ulink></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><ulink url="http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/download/config/xmexample1.bsd">xmexample1.bsd</ulink></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>Put the configuration file <filename>xmexample1.bsd</filename> into <filename>/etc/xen/</filename> and modify the related entries about where the kernel and the disk image are stored. It should look like the following:</para> <programlisting>kernel = "/opt/kernel-current" memory = 256 name = "freebsd" vif = [ '' ] disk = [ 'file:/opt/mdroot-7.0,hda1,w' ] #on_crash = 'preserve' extra = "boot_verbose" extra += ",boot_single" extra += ",kern.hz=100" extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd769a"</programlisting> <para>The <filename>mdroot-7.0.bz2</filename> file should be uncompressed.</para> <para>Next, the __xen_guest section in <filename>kernel-current</filename> needs to be altered to add the VIRT_BASE that <application>&xen; 3.0.3</application> requires:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>objcopy kernel-current -R __xen_guest</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>perl -e 'print "LOADER=generic,GUEST_OS=freebsd,GUEST_VER=7.0,XEN_VER=xen-3.0,BSD_SYMTAB,VIRT_BASE=0xC0000000\x00"' > tmp</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>objcopy kernel-current ––add-section __xen_guest=tmp</userinput></screen> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>objdump -j __xen_guest -s kernel-current</userinput> kernel-current: file format elf32-i386 Contents of section __xen_guest: 0000 4c4f4144 45523d67 656e6572 69632c47 LOADER=generic,G 0010 55455354 5f4f533d 66726565 6273642c UEST_OS=freebsd, 0020 47554553 545f5645 523d372e 302c5845 GUEST_VER=7.0,XE 0030 4e5f5645 523d7865 6e2d332e 302c4253 N_VER=xen-3.0,BS 0040 445f5359 4d544142 2c564952 545f4241 D_SYMTAB,VIRT_BA 0050 53453d30 78433030 30303030 3000 SE=0xC0000000. </screen> <para>We are, now, ready to create and launch our domU:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>xm create /etc/xen/xmexample1.bsd -c</userinput> Using config file "/etc/xen/xmexample1.bsd". Started domain freebsd WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #113: Wed Jan 4 06:25:43 UTC 2006 kmacy@freebsd7.gateway.2wire.net:/usr/home/kmacy/p4/freebsd7_xen3/src/sys/i386-xen/compile/XENCONF WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance. Xen reported: 1796.927 MHz processor. Timecounter "ixen" frequency 1796927000 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz (1796.93-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH, DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>> real memory = 265244672 (252 MB) avail memory = 255963136 (244 MB) xc0: <Xen Console> on motherboard cpu0 on motherboard Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec [XEN] Initialising virtual ethernet driver. xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:6b:de:3a [XEN] Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd769a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Loading configuration files. No suitable dump device was found. Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart. Starting file system checks: /dev/xbd769a: 18859 files, 140370 used, 113473 free (10769 frags, 12838 blocks, 4.2% fragmentation) Setting hostname: demo.freebsd.org. lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 Additional routing options:. Mounting NFS file systems:. Starting syslogd. /etc/rc: WARNING: Dump device does not exist. Savecore not run. ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout Starting usbd. usb: Kernel module not available: No such file or directory Starting local daemons:. Updating motd. Starting sshd. Initial i386 initialization:. Additional ABI support: linux. Starting cron. Local package initialization:. Additional TCP options:. Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. Sun Apr 1 02:11:43 UTC 2007 FreeBSD/i386 (demo.freebsd.org) (xc0) login: </screen> <para>The domU should run the &os; 7.0-CURRENT kernel:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>uname -a</userinput> FreeBSD demo.freebsd.org 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #113: Wed Jan 4 06:25:43 UTC 2006 kmacy@freebsd7.gateway.2wire.net:/usr/home/kmacy/p4/freebsd7_xen3/src/sys/i386-xen/compile/XENCONF i386</screen> <para>The network can now be configured on the domU. The &os; domU will use a specific interface called <devicename>xn0</devicename>:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig xn0 10.10.10.200 netmask 255.0.0.0</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig</userinput> xn0: flags=843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500 inet 10.10.10.200 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255 ether 00:16:3e:6b:de:3a lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 </screen> <para>On dom0 Slackware, some <application>&xen;</application> dependant network interfaces should show up:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig</userinput> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:E9:A0:02:C2 inet addr:10.10.10.130 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:204857 (200.0 KiB) TX bytes:129915 (126.8 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9744 (9.5 KiB) TX bytes:9744 (9.5 KiB) peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1853349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:952923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2432115831 (2.2 GiB) TX bytes:86528526 (82.5 MiB) Base address:0xc000 Memory:ef020000-ef040000 vif0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:129915 (126.8 KiB) TX bytes:204857 (200.0 KiB) vif1.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:157 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 RX bytes:140 (140.0 b) TX bytes:158 (158.0 b) xenbr1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:112 (112.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)</screen> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>brctl show</userinput> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces xenbr1 8000.feffffffffff no vif0.1 peth0 vif1.0</screen> </sect3> </sect2> --> <sect2 id="virtualization-guest-virtualpc"> <title>Virtual PC on &windows;</title> <para><application>Virtual PC</application> for &windows; is a µsoft; software product available for free download. See <ulink url="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/sysreq.mspx"> system requirements</ulink>. Once <application> Virtual PC </application> has been installed on µsoft.windows;, the user must configure a virtual machine and then install the desired guest operating system.</para> <sect3 id="virtualization-guest-virtualpc-install"> <title>Installing &os; on Virtual PC/µsoft.windows;</title> <para>The first step in installing &os; on µsoft.windows; /<application>Virtual PC </application> is to create a new virtual machine for installing &os;. Select <guimenuitem>Create a virtual machine</guimenuitem> when prompted:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd1"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd2"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>And select <guimenuitem>Other</guimenuitem> as the <guimenuitem>Operating system</guimenuitem> when prompted:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd3"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Then, choose a reasonable amount of disk and memory depending on your plans for this virtual &os; instance. 4GB of disk space and 512MB of RAM work well for most uses of &os; under <application>Virtual PC</application>:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd4"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd5"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Save and finish the configuration:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd6"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Select your &os; virtual machine and click <guimenu>Settings</guimenu>, then set the type of networking and a network interface:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd7"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd8"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>After your &os; virtual machine has been created, you will need to install &os; on it. This is best done with an official &os; CDROM or with an ISO image downloaded from an official FTP site. When you have the appropriate ISO image on your local &windows; filesystem or a CDROM in your CD drive, double click on your &os; virtual machine to boot. Then, click <guimenu>CD</guimenu> and choose <guimenu>Capture ISO Image...</guimenu> on <application>Virtual PC</application> window. This will bring up a window that allows you to associate the CDROM drive in your virtual machine with an ISO file on disk or with your real CDROM drive.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd9"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd10"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Once you have made this association with your CDROM source, reboot your &os; virtual machine as normal by clicking the <guimenu>Action</guimenu> and <guimenu>Reset</guimenu>. <application>Virtual PC</application> will reboot with a special BIOS that first checks if you have a CDROM just as a normal BIOS would do.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd11"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>In this case it will find the &os; installation media and begin a normal <application>sysinstall</application> based installation as described in <xref linkend="install"/>. You may install, but do not attempt to configure X11 at this time.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd12"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>When you have finished the installation, remember to eject CDROM or release ISO image. Finally, reboot into your newly installed &os; virtual machine.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/virtualpc-freebsd13"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> </sect3> <sect3 id="virtualization-guest-virtualpc-configure"> <title>Configuring &os; on µsoft.windows;/Virtual PC</title> <para>After &os; has been successfully installed on µsoft.windows; with <application>Virtual PC </application>, there are a number of configuration steps that can be taken to optimize the system for virtualized operation.</para> <procedure> <step> <title>Set Boot Loader Variables</title> <para>The most important step is to reduce the <option>kern.hz</option> tunable to reduce the CPU utilization of &os; under the <application>Virtual PC</application> environment. This is accomplished by adding the following line to <filename> /boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>kern.hz=100</programlisting> <para>Without this setting, an idle &os; <application>Virtual PC</application> guest OS will use roughly 40% of the CPU of a single processor computer. After this change the usage will be closer to a mere 3%.</para> </step> <step> <title>Create a New Kernel Configuration File</title> <para>You can remove all of the SCSI, FireWire, and USB device drivers. <application>Virtual PC</application> provides a virtual network adapter used by the &man.de.4; driver, so all other network devices except for &man.de.4; and &man.miibus.4; can be removed from the kernel.</para> </step> <step> <title>Configure Networking</title> <para>The most basic networking setup involves simply using DHCP to connect your virtual machine to the same local area network as your host µsoft.windows;. This can be accomplished by adding <literal>ifconfig_de0="DHCP"</literal> to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>. More advanced networking setups are described in <xref linkend="advanced-networking"/>.</para> </step> </procedure> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="virtualization-guest-vmware"> <title>VMware on MacOS</title> <para><application>VMware Fusion</application> for &mac; is a commercial software product available for &intel; based &apple; &mac; computers running &macos; 10.4.9 or higher. &os; is a fully supported guest operating system. Once <application>VMware Fusion</application> has been installed on &macos; X, the user must configure a virtual machine and then install the desired guest operating system.</para> <sect3 id="virtualization-guest-vmware-install"> <title>Installing &os; on VMware/&macos; X</title> <para>The first step is to start VMware Fusion, the Virtual Machine Library will load. Click "New" to create the VM:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd01"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>This will load the New Virtual Machine Assistant to help you create the VM, click Continue to proceed:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd02"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Select <guimenuitem>Other</guimenuitem> as the <guimenuitem>Operating System</guimenuitem> and <guimenuitem>&os;</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>&os; 64-bit</guimenuitem>, depending on if you want 64-bit support, as the <guimenu>Version</guimenu> when prompted:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd03"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Choose the Name of the VM Image and the Directory where you would like it saved:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd04"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Choose the size of the Virtual Hard Disk for the VM:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd05"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Choose the method you would like to install the VM, either from an ISO image or from a CD:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd06"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Once you click Finish, the VM will boot:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd07"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Install &os; like you normally would, or by following the directions in <xref linkend="install"/>:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd08"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Once the install is complete you can modify the settings of the VM, such as Memory Usage:</para> <note> <para>The System Hardware settings of the VM cannot be modified while the VM is running.</para> </note> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd09"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>The number of CPUs the VM will have access to:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd10"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>The status of the CD-Rom Device. Normally you can disconnect the CD-Rom/ISO from the VM if you will not be needing it anymore.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd11"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>The last thing to change is how the VM will connect to the Network. If you want to allow connections to the VM from other machines besides the Host, make sure you choose the <guimenuitem>Connect directly to the physical network (Bridged)</guimenuitem>. Otherwise <guimenuitem>Share the host's internet connection (NAT)</guimenuitem> is preferred so that the VM can have access to the Internet, but the network cannot access the VM.</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="virtualization/vmware-freebsd12"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>After you have finished modifying the settings, boot the newly installed &os; virtual machine.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="virtualization-guest-vmware-configure"> <title>Configuring &os; on &macos; X/VMware</title> <para>After &os; has been successfully installed on &macos; X with <application>VMware</application>, there are a number of configuration steps that can be taken to optimize the system for virtualized operation.</para> <procedure> <step> <title>Set Boot Loader Variables</title> <para>The most important step is to reduce the <option>kern.hz</option> tunable to reduce the CPU utilization of &os; under the <application>VMware</application> environment. This is accomplished by adding the following line to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>kern.hz=100</programlisting> <para>Without this setting, an idle &os; <application>VMware</application> guest OS will use roughly 15% of the CPU of a single processor &imac;. After this change the usage will be closer to a mere 5%.</para> </step> <step> <title>Create a New Kernel Configuration File</title> <para>You can remove all of the FireWire, and USB device drivers. <application>VMware</application> provides a virtual network adapter used by the &man.em.4; driver, so all other network devices except for &man.em.4; can be removed from the kernel.</para> </step> <step> <title>Configure Networking</title> <para>The most basic networking setup involves simply using DHCP to connect your virtual machine to the same local area network as your host &mac;. This can be accomplished by adding <literal>ifconfig_em0="DHCP"</literal> to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>. More advanced networking setups are described in <xref linkend="advanced-networking"/>.</para> </step> </procedure> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="virtualization-guest-virtualbox-guest-additions"> <title>&virtualbox; Guest Additions on a &os; Guest</title> <para>The <application>&virtualbox;</application> guest additions provide support for:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>Clipboard sharing</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Mouse pointer integration</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Host time synchronization</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Window scaling</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Seamless mode</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <note> <para>The following commands are run in the &os; guest.</para> </note> <para>First, install the <filename role="package">emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions</filename> package in the &os; guest.</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions && make install clean</userinput></screen> <para>Add these lines to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>vboxguest_enable="YES" vboxservice_enable="YES"</programlisting> <para>If &man.ntpd.8; or &man.ntpdate.8; will be used, host time synchronization should be disabled:</para> <programlisting>vboxservice_flags="--disable-timesync"</programlisting> <para>The <literal>vboxvideo_drv</literal> should be recognized by <command>Xorg -configure</command>. If not, modify <filename>xorg.conf</filename> for the <application>&virtualbox;</application> video card:</para> <programlisting>Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional Identifier "Card0" Driver "vboxvideo" VendorName "InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH" BoardName "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection</programlisting> <para>To use <literal>vboxmouse_drv</literal>, adjust the mouse section in your <filename>xorg.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vboxmouse" EndSection</programlisting> <para><acronym>HAL</acronym> users should create this file at <filename>/usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-vboxguest.fdi</filename> or copy it from <filename>/usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/90-vboxguest.fdi</filename>:</para> <programlisting><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- # Sun VirtualBox # Hal driver description for the vboxmouse driver # $Id: chapter.sgml,v 1.33 2012-03-17 04:53:52 eadler Exp $ Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE, as available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind. Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA or visit http://www.sun.com if you need additional information or have any questions. --> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.subsystem" string="pci"> <match key="info.product" string="VirtualBox guest Service"> <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">input</append> <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">input.mouse</append> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">vboxmouse</merge> <merge key="input.device" type="string">/dev/vboxguest</merge> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo></programlisting> </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="virtualization-host"> <title>&os; as a Host OS</title> <para>For a number of years, &os; was not officially supported as a host OS by any of the available virtualization solutions. Some people were using older and mostly obsolete versions of <application>VMware</application> (like <filename role="package">emulators/vmware3</filename>), which utilized the &linux; binary compatibility layer. Shortly after the release of &os; 7.2, Sun's <application>&virtualbox;</application> appeared in the Ports Collection as a native &os; program.</para> <para><application>&virtualbox;</application> is an actively developed, complete virtualization package, that is available for most operating systems including &windows;, &macos;, &linux; and &os;. It is equally capable at running &windows; or &unix; like guests. It is released as open source software, but with closed-source components available in a separate extension pack. These components include support for USB 2.0 devices, among others. More information may be found on the <quote>Downloads</quote> page of the <application>&virtualbox;</application> wiki, at <ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads"></ulink>. Currently, these extensions are not available for &os;.</para> <sect2 id="virtualization-virtualbox-install"> <title>Installing &virtualbox;</title> <para><application>&virtualbox;</application> is available as a &os; port in <filename role="package">emulators/virtualbox-ose</filename>. As &virtualbox; is very actively developed, make sure your ports tree is up to date before installing. Install using these commands:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen> <para>One useful option in the configuration dialog is the <literal>GuestAdditions</literal> suite of programs. These provide a number of useful features in guest operating systems, like mouse pointer integration (allowing the mouse to be shared between host and guest without the need to press a special keyboard shortcut to switch) and faster video rendering, especially in &windows; guests. The guest additions are available in the <guimenu>Devices</guimenu> menu, after the installation of the guest OS is finished.</para> <para>A few configuration changes are needed before <application>&virtualbox;</application> is started for the first time. The port installs a kernel module in <filename class="directory">/boot/modules</filename> which must be loaded into the running kernel:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kldload vboxdrv</userinput></screen> <para>To ensure the module always gets loaded after a reboot, add the following line to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>vboxdrv_load="YES"</programlisting> <para>To use the kernel modules that allow bridged or host-only networking, add the following to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> and reboot the computer:</para> <programlisting>vboxnet_enable="YES"</programlisting> <para>The <groupname>vboxusers</groupname> group is created during installation of <application>&virtualbox;</application>. All users that need access to <application>&virtualbox;</application> will have to be added as members of this group. The <command>pw</command> command may be used to add new members:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pw groupmod vboxusers -m <replaceable>yourusername</replaceable></userinput></screen> <para>The default permissions for <filename class="devicefile">/dev/vboxnetctl</filename> are restrictive and need to be changed for bridged networking.</para> <para>To test it temporarily:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>chown root:vboxusers /dev/vboxnetctl</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>chmod 0660 /dev/vboxnetctl</userinput></screen> <para>To make the permissions change permanent, add these lines to <filename>/etc/devfs.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>own vboxnetctl root:vboxusers perm vboxnetctl 0660</programlisting> <para>To launch <application>&virtualbox;</application>, either select the <guimenuitem>Sun VirtualBox</guimenuitem> item from the graphic environment's menu, or type the following in a terminal:</para> <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>VirtualBox</userinput></screen> <para>For more information on configuring and using <application>&virtualbox;</application>, please visit the official website at <ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org"></ulink>. As the &os; port is very recent, it is under heavy development. For the latest information and troubleshooting instructions, please visit the relevant page in the &os; wiki, at <ulink url="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/VirtualBox"></ulink>.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="virtualization-virtualbox-usb-support"> <title>&virtualbox; USB Support</title> <note> <para>These steps require VirtualBox 4.0.0 or later.</para> </note> <para>In order to be able to read and write to USB devices, users need to be members of the operator group:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pw groupmod operator -m <replaceable>jerry</replaceable></userinput></screen> <para>Then, add the following to <filename>/etc/devfs.rules</filename> (create it if it does not exist yet):</para> <programlisting>[system=10] add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator</programlisting> <para>To load these new rules, add the following to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>devfs_system_ruleset="system"</programlisting> <para>Then, restart devfs:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/rc.d/devfs restart</userinput></screen> <para>USB can now be enabled in the guest operating system. USB devices should be visible in the &virtualbox; preferences.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="virtualization-virtualbox-host-dvd-cd-access"> <title>&virtualbox; Host DVD/CD Access</title> <para>The <command>atapicam</command> kernel module needs to be loaded by adding the following line to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>atapicam_load="YES"</programlisting> <para><acronym>HAL</acronym> needs to run for <application>&virtualbox;</application> DVD/CD functions to work, so enable it in <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> and start it (if it is not already running):</para> <programlisting>hald_enable="YES"</programlisting> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start</userinput></screen> <para>In order for users to be able to use <application>&virtualbox;</application> DVD/CD functions, they need access to <filename class="devicefile">/dev/xpt0</filename>, <filename class="devicefile">/dev/cd<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>, and <filename class="devicefile">/dev/pass<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>. Add the following lines to <filename>/etc/devfs.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>perm cd0 0600 perm xpt0 0660 perm pass0 0660</programlisting> </sect2> <!-- Note: There is no working/end-user ready Xen support for FreeBSD as of 07-2010. Hide all information regarding Xen under FreeBSD. <sect2 id="virtualization-other"> <title>Other Virtualization Options</title> <para>There is ongoing work in getting <application>&xen;</application> to work as a host environment on &os;.</para> </sect2> --> </sect1> </chapter>