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Re: Hypervisor advice



Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>> I have been using xen, with the packages from pkgsrc, on NetBSD since
>> 2005ish.  It has been totally solid.  Any semi-recent AMD or Intel
>> processor will be fine.  See the xen howto for more discussion:
>>
>> https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/
>
> Just to be 100% clear, you're using NetBSD as the Hypervisor OS?

Yes, Xen as the hypervisor, and NetBSD as the dom0.    I haven't tried
netbsd-8 yet with this.

> What virtual machines do you use? And are they Xen specific or not
> aware that they are virtualized?

I'm using NetBSD i386 and amd64 as domUs.  So they are PV guests.

I hear that non-PV guests work fine too, but have not tried it.

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