Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-10-10 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 01:55:10PM +0100, Ian Clark wrote: > On 16 August 2017 at 18:08, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > > Andy Ruhl writes: > > > [snip] > >> > >> Just to be 100% clear, you're using NetBSD as the Hypervisor OS? > > > > Yes, Xen as the hypervisor, and

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-10-10 Thread Ian Clark
On 16 August 2017 at 18:08, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Andy Ruhl writes: > [snip] >> >> Just to be 100% clear, you're using NetBSD as the Hypervisor OS? > > Yes, Xen as the hypervisor, and NetBSD as the dom0.I haven't tried > netbsd-8 yet with this. > Are we

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-08-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Andy Ruhl writes: > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I have been using xen, with the packages from pkgsrc, on NetBSD since >> 2005ish. It has been totally solid. Any semi-recent AMD or Intel >> processor will be fine. See the xen howto

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-08-10 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > I have been using xen, with the packages from pkgsrc, on NetBSD since > 2005ish. It has been totally solid. Any semi-recent AMD or Intel > processor will be fine. See the xen howto for more discussion: > >

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-31 Thread Niels Dettenbach
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2017, 12:01:40 CEST schrieb Stephen Borrill: > XenServer is free and all the major OSes run on it. Only downside is that > if you want to run its graphical management tool you'll need to run that > on Windows. > > https://xenserver.org/ ...just to avoid typical

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-31 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Niels Dettenbach wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2017, 12:01:40 CEST schrieb Stephen Borrill: XenServer is free and all the major OSes run on it. Only downside is that if you want to run its graphical management tool you'll need to run that on Windows. https://xenserver.org/

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-31 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 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

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-31 Thread Hauke Fath
On 07/30/17 05:22, Andy Ruhl wrote: Don't really care what the Hypervisor is as long as it's reliable and straightforward. Free would be a bonus. If it was BSD it would be even better. Xen should tick all your boxes, tnen. I have been running VMs on Xen for the last ~ten years, starting with

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-30 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
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

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-29 Thread David Brownlee
On 29 July 2017 at 18:50, 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

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-29 Thread Andreas Beck
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

Hypervisor advice

2017-07-29 Thread Andy Ruhl
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