On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:50:34AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: > I've had a NetBSD/i386 machine that's been running since the late 90s > and various hardware iterations. I think it's time to move it to a > virtual machine. I need new hardware as well. It has about a 10 year > old AMD processor and 1 gig of memory. This is plenty, but the > hardware is getting unreliable. > > I need advice on hypervisors and if it requires certain hardware, > hardware advice as well. > > bhyve appeals to me for obvious reasons but I've never used it. I use > KVM and VMWare at work. Also VMWare Fusion on my Mac. Would prefer not > to pay too much if I need to pay for something. Never tried Xen but I > see posts about it here once in a while. > > I plan on running other stuff on the hypervisor, probably OpenBSD. > Possibly something else as well, maybe a NAS or something. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks. > > Andy
Hi, I use FreeBSD 11.1 with "vm" a managment tool for bhyve. Im runing from "vm" netbsd and openbsd, successfully. Sometimes @reboot the vm's comes not fully up. I will try to solve the problem at a later time. Best Regards, Andreas