Re: Hypervisor advice

[Andreas Beck <lists%mode42.net@localhost>]

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