[NBLUG/talk] VMware on Linux on Xen with non-linux Dom0...

[Robert P. Thille]

Andrew wrote:
> Robert P. Thille wrote on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:09:04 -0700:
> Have you tried other distros? Why not grab a bunch of LiveCDs
> (Knoppix, Ubuntu, eLive, etc., including one or two with a 2.4
> kernel), pop them in one at a time and try to kill each one.
I went to Linuxworld last year and brought home a bunch of distros, and 
tried each one at the time, and I could kill them all :-(
> If
> you can't find anything that will stay up, you may have to
> abandon that board,
Thought about that, figured I might get a new Portwell Core 2 Quad 
capable Mini-ITX board, just because I can, but that'd be way way 
overkill for this.  Right now I'm transferring files from my old server 
and the old Cobalt RaQ2+ is maxed out on CPU doing rsync over ssh, and 
the new 1.5GHz VIA C7 board is at ~5% :-)

  or else (gasp!) run Windows as your host OS.
On a cold day in hell :-)  I want to be able to run Windows 
occasionally, mostly for dev-tools for MicroChip PIC chips, or TI MSP430 
USB Dev stick, or the Bitscope USB Oscilloscope/Logic Analyzer, but I 
would never run it as a base-os and then run my servers on it, either 
directly or in a VM...just had too many bad experiences with Windows...

> If, however, you do find one that will stay up, you can take
> heart knowing that there *is* a configuration for Linux that
> will run stable on your board.

So far, NetBSD seems to be completely stable, so I'll probably stick 
with that.  I might further investigate VMWare on NetBSD, because 
apparently some time in the dim past that worked...

Thanks,

Robert



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