FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?

Benchmark tests on Intel N150 and i7-7500U hardware compared FreeBSD and SmartOS virtualization technologies. Results showed bhyve hypervisor on FreeBSD achieved near-native performance with less than 1% overhead on mature hardware, while SmartOS Zones demonstrated excellent container performance with Linux LX zones outperforming bare-metal FreeBSD in memory tests.