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psmitty0227

Hello, I'm Porter. I've been using FreeBSD and the other BSD and Unix-like operating systems for nearly twenty-six years on and off. I don't really run FreeBSD on bare metal these days because I can't afford a "modern" bare metal to run it on. So as it stands, I'm using virtualization mainly Oracle VirtualBox to experiment with FreeBSD.

I worry that the "Free BSD white beards" will disapprove of my using VirtualBox for virtualization, something I'd prefer to avoid controversy.
 
You probably want to use the "Introduce yourself, ..." thread in this forum (pinned at the top on the off-topic page) to tell us a bit about yourself. Using virtualbox is perfectly fine!
 
psmitty0227 said:
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Why? What made you worry about this?

With regards to "Which forum to post in", it entirely depends on the core of the problem. If it's an issue that's related to virtualization "Emulation and Virtualization". Anything else can be posted in a relevant forum. And don't worry too much about posting in a "wrong" section, we'll move it to an appropriate forum, you won't be chastised for it.
 
psmitty0227 said:
I worry that the "Free BSD white beards" will disapprove of my using VirtualBox for virtualization, something I'd prefer to avoid controversy.
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FreeBSD has "the power to serve", how you're going to use this is fully up to you. And it even provides native Hyper-V support, and I can tell you that it's quite effective.

Keep in mind that the mindset here is - generally speaking - much more mature than you'd see in, say, more Linux minded environments. You know, unproductive ("dumb") talk about "the 'evil' <insert company name here>" while in the end the focus is better kept on the tech that is involved.

I personally have no love lost for Oracle, but that doesn't mean that they don't provide some useful tech (Java, VirtualBox, etc.).
 
SirDice said:
Why? What made you worry about this?

With regard to "Which forum to post in", it entirely depends on the core of the problem. If it's an issue that's related to virtualization "Emulation and Virtualization". Anything else can be posted in a relevant forum. And don't worry too much about posting in a "wrong" section; we will move it to an appropriate forum, and we will not chastise you for it.
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How's one go about transferring a post thread between separate subcategories? Would you or one of the other moderators/administrators be able to assist me in transferring this thread into the correct subform?

As for my concerns about being seen as a "rule binder" for using a virtual machine to contribute to the FreeBSD community, because certain tech bros assume that just because you "don't use bare metal" you're wasting others' time and effort.
 
psmitty0227 said:
Would you or one of the other moderators/administrators be able to assist me in transferring this thread into the correct subform?
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There's no actual question or issue to solve in this thread. So it's fine in "offtopic". Other than that, yes, we mods/admins can and will move threads.
 
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