previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed: > So I'm hoping I can boot OpenBSD with qemu or Windows or Linux > under multiboot or alternatively boot xenserver or something off a usb > and select 2 or more of the multiboots to run concurrently. > > Any input as to if this is possible with esxi or anything else would be > appreciated.
So it seems Alpine-Xen with the bonus of grsecurity on dom0 is the closest and most flexible backstop option (if you have the supported hardware) and less tied to Linux especially for a single self-contained laptop and can boot existing partitions in hvm mode, so I can boot it from a multiboot partition or cd/usb or just usb hdd to install X on dom0. Please say if you disagree (this machine will be offline too, so little need to raise the security concerns that I understand quite well). The only question I believe I have left is if I should be looking at KVM instead as OpenBSD has virtio which I guess does not work with xen paravirtualisation or it's mix of the two (hvm/pv), is that the case? I also am not sure how much virtio matters for my use case as I expect cpu and memory and memory available to be the major factors but maybe viomb matters? Linux swap handling as mentioned recently may be an issue but hopefully swapiness=0 might fix that. Thanks and I hope to find that qemu on native OpenBSD is perfectly adequate for all tasks that I may need to do and just want to be as prepared as possible if not. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________
