I have an server dual-core @ 3.4 Ghz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb HDD, OS: FreeBSD 10.1.

I want to install several virtual machines with Win7, Win server 2008 R2, Win server 2012 R2, each about 20-30Gb, on my FreeBSD server to give users acces at services hosted on those virtual machines. How can I do that?

You simply need to decide on a virtual machine choice.

Once you decide on that choice, you can then start to configure it. In almost all VM's they are mostly as if you have a real computer. Some tricks only for the way networking works usually.

@Habitual - "users" = persons who will benefit by:
- "services" = in this case, remote access to a virtual machine is supposed to function as a remote desktop to a machine;
- "access" = like in permission to do(or not) a thing on that VM.

The resources available for "users" to have "access" on VM are: 1. storage space, 2. processing power, 3. the TIME running apps like: office-related, communications-Skype, web developer tools, browsers, etc.

Basicly a VM (the one with Win7) I want to behave as a Workstation supporting 25-30 "users" remotely on it.

I hope that I defined all terms correctly and I don't gived room for doubt.

I want to try installing a VM of Win 7 on my FreeBSD server. Can somebody assist me with a step by step tutorial, manual or any other kind of helper materials?

A vm page at freebsd. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook...alization.html should get you started.

Choose one of the vm's for host.


Do you have an retail copy of Windows 7? If not, a cloned one won't easily work. Might be better off with the windows 10 iso. Not sure what MS will do with activation. Some tweeks to iso might not even ask for code.

@Habitual bhive vs. VirtualBox - wich solution is better for a VM with Windows 7 guest OS on a FreeBSD host server? I created a VM on FreeBSD with FreeBSD using the example from readme.txt adapted (good exercise othervise).

@jefro - I dld-ed a Win10 En.International edt.ISO file ready to install it in to VM.

I read any posted article that I found about virtualisation until now: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html - but didn't found any references to FreeBSD as host OS with Windoze as guest OS and neither any steps to do that.

On https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook...alization.html it says more about how to create a VM under FreeBSD (I choose bhive solution as a short exercise) but not about how to create a VM with Windows guest OS.

For example: For a Windoze guest OS what kind of VM bhive accepts, what extension must have? Accepts ISO's? How MUST be loaded, how CAN be loaded?

Any help is appreciated.

@jefro - been there, done that with bhyve or virtualbox - is about only installing and configuring the Hypervisor and FreeBSD, so how can I install Win10(for the beginning) in a VM as guest on a FreeBSD server with one of those 2 tools?

Once a vm is installed and you either access it via command line or via gui. You then create a vm machine using enough resources as the client needs. If you want to create a 64 bit system them make it. Be sure to add in enough ram. Generally you create a virtual hard drive or more. Then you attach the iso image to the vm client and boot it.

The steps for creating a vm client in freebsd should be as in any other OS. Permissions and device names in bsd would be unique. All client events should be the same.

You can try using solusvm to create VPS.

@Karl - I will try it but a free solution is more likelly a good one for me.

Indeed, good for enterprise but not for my pocket.