Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:20 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > From er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost Fri Apr 12 07:45:24 2019
> > From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
> > Subject: Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?
> > To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%sdf.org@localhost>
> > Cc: NetBSD Users Mailing List <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:03 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%sdf.org@localhost> 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.

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Abhinav