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 unreliable

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 gi

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 1 gig of memory. Th

Re: Hypervisor advice

2017-07-29 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 5:06 PM, David Brownlee wrote: > If you want to keep NetBSD as the host then Xen is the obvious option > - you can just install amd64 as normal, add the xen packages and then > adjust boot.cfg to boot then xen kernel and away you go. > > On the other hand if you want a Free