Why would anyone want to run FreeBSD in a virtual machine?

tingo said:
Excuse me?
It has a web interface, if that is what you are asking.
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Yes, that's what I'm asking about. My home server has all of my media which I use to stream to my laptop via samba since I've got a 128GB SSD and don't want to keep all that data on it. I've been trying to come up with a good solution to streaming that data to my wife's iPad and I think this seems to be the best one I've come accross.
 
Slimserver is an audio-only media streamer; when streaming to a device that isn't emulating a Squeezebox basically you have access to a "consume only" stream at http://yourserver:9000/stream.mp3. You can control the stream using the web interface.

If you choose to run Java on the iPad (not being an iPad user I don't know if that is an option) you can probably install SoftSqueeze, a Java based Squeezebox emulator, which will give you both audio and a different, perhaps preferable, UI.
 
I'm running several FreeBSD guests on VirtualBox under FreeBSD host :) Mostly for testing web applications.

Maybe I should use jail instead of VBox
 
kr651129 said:
Yes, that's what I'm asking about. My home server has all of my media which I use to stream to my laptop via samba since I've got a 128GB SSD and don't want to keep all that data on it. I've been trying to come up with a good solution to streaming that data to my wife's iPad and I think this seems to be the best one I've come accross.
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I haven't got any of those iDevices myself, but Googling is easy enough. Here is a few things I found:
http://bruchez.blogspot.no/2010/11/streaming-music-from-squeezebox-server.html
http://penguinlovesmusic.de/
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?82702-How-to-listen-to-music-on-iPad
HTH
 
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