Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
running a netbsd vm on a google compute engine is a nice idea, but that makes me dependent on the network, something which cannot be trusted to not fail. > From bsieg...@gmail.com Fri Apr 12 09:05:51 2019 > From: Benny Siegert > Subject: Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu? > To: Ma

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Pedro Pinho
What exactly runs on Chrome that doesn't run on Firefox? Haven't tried exactly this, but I did run a minimal Ubuntu install with Firefox on my Voidlinux musl-libC using qemu with kvm-enable. Used this vm to stream DRM protected content, which otherwise does not run on musl. Waiting for

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Niels Dettenbach
Am Freitag, 12. April 2019, 12:29:21 CEST schrieb Benny Siegert: > X works fine but Dom0 is limited to a single core. Ok, this is new to me. But this limit not affects a Linux Dom0. Running the "work" netBSD in a dedicated (fast PV) DomU with (the) VGA is possibly an option to. The Dom0 is

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Niels Dettenbach
Am Freitag, 12. April 2019, 12:03:41 CEST schrieb Stephen Borrill: > How is X support with a NetBSD dom0 nowadays? I did not used X on NetBSD Dom0 byself (but on Linux few years ago - until the proprietary NVidia driver of my book att collided with Xen that days). > X works fine but Dom0 is

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Benny Siegert
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:04 PM Stephen Borrill wrote: > How is X support with a NetBSD dom0 nowadays? X works fine but Dom0 is limited to a single core. -- Benny

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019, Niels Dettenbach wrote: Am Freitag, 12. April 2019, 10:02:54 CEST schrieb Abhinav Upadhyay: Things might have improved with qemu, I haven't tried it recently. Xen is another option to Run Linux "under" NetBSD. Ubuntu as PV (or the newer PVM) Guest could be more efficient

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Niels Dettenbach
Am Freitag, 12. April 2019, 10:02:54 CEST schrieb Abhinav Upadhyay: > Things might have improved with qemu, I haven't tried it recently. Xen is another option to Run Linux "under" NetBSD. Ubuntu as PV (or the newer PVM) Guest could be more efficient then VirtualBox - but bit bit more difficult

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Benny Siegert
Another option would be to run Ubuntu as a Xen Dom0 and run NetBSD in a DomU, which is well-supported. Myself, I use the lazy solution, which is a NetBSD VM on Google Compute Engine that I spin up when needed. On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:33 AM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > as in a previous email, i

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Abhinav Upadhyay
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:20 PM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > From er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com Fri Apr 12 07:45:24 2019 > > From: Abhinav Upadhyay > > Subject: Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu? > > To: Mayuresh Kathe > > Cc: NetBSD Users Mailing List > &

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
> From er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com Fri Apr 12 07:45:24 2019 > From: Abhinav Upadhyay > Subject: Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu? > To: Mayuresh Kathe > Cc: NetBSD Users Mailing List > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:03 PM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > as i

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Abhinav Upadhyay
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:03 PM Mayuresh Kathe 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

how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

2019-04-12 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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,