For what is worth, I have used as part of my old day job VMWare, Hyper-V and XenServer. I still have a Hyper-V server I occasionally use at home, with the intention of replacing it with XenServer, under which NetBSD works very well (not so yet under Hyper-V, in contrast with FreeBSD, which now under 11.1 supports even Generation II machines, and OpenBSD, which also is supported as of recently). The only problem is that you really need a Windows machine for the interface program.
Chavdar Ivanov On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 at 22:15 Andreas Beck <li...@mode42.net> wrote: > 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 >
