On 05/09/07, Liam Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> wrote:
> On 04/09/07, Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@alumni.uni-due.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm collecting information about virtualization solutions that support
> > NetBSD as a guest system. I know about Xen2/3 but what are your
> > experiences about other virtualization products, on other OSes (and on
> > hardware platforms apart from i386/amd64)?
> >
> >
> > Kind regards, Mark Weinem

I am currently running a few VMWare server 1.03 machines, i386
-current and 4.0RC1, wothout any problems. I have been through
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Virtual Server Enterprize and Parallels
(the latter on Windows) with success - although the former too appear
to be somewhat slower.

What I could not do - although it might seem strange - was to get any
NetBSD to run as a guest machine under XenSource 3.[01] - even with
the special XEN3 kernels. It always bombed on me; but then FreeBSD
looped endlessly, some Linux systems misbehaved in different ways etc.
(only OpenBSD 4.1 worked out of the box on this one).

I use virtual machine setup with xBSD mostly for pkgsrc builds and
also some firewalling. Interestngly enough, I have got a NetBSD
visrtual machine under VMWare which I use as a boot loader/NFS kernel
server for a HP-PA workstation running -current.

> >
>
> I use Mac OS X Parallels with NetBSD flawlessly. Its simple to setup and
> seems to have pretty good performance. I know at least NetBSD 4 will boot
> on Parallels flawlessly (GENERIC that is).
>
> --
> Liam J. Foy
> liamjfoy@netbsd.org
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>

Chavdar Ivanov