On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:20 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@sdf.org> wrote: > > > From er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com Fri Apr 12 07:45:24 2019 > > From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu? > > To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@sdf.org> > > Cc: NetBSD Users Mailing List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org> > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:03 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@sdf.org> wrote: > > > > > > as in a previous email, i need to use ubuntu as my primary desktop. > > > i researched various options via googling around as well as asking > > > this mailing list and it looks like the best thing would be to run > > > netbsd in a virtual environment. for the same, would "qemu" be > > > considered good enough? if it is, should i upgrade my system memory > > > from 4gib to 8gib? i have a 1tib hard disk, would running with a > > > 256gib 'ssd' instead pose any unforeseen problems? thanks. > > > > What do you mean by running with Ubuntu, Is dual boot an option? If > > virtualization is the only option, I prefer VirtualBox over qemu when > > running NetBSD inside a VM.
In the past I used to run NetBSD inside qemu on a Linux host (this was 6-7 years back). It used to be very slow for certain things, .e.g disk operations. VirtualBox has always been pretty good. Things might have improved with qemu, I haven't tried it recently. - Abhinav