Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : deon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jul 04 2022 09:37:00

-=> deon wrote to vorlon <=-

 de> I must say I've been pretty lucky to get ESXi on a lot of things (that
 de> werent on the HCL). There is a german site (escapes me at the moment)
 de> that has a lot of "community" drivers that has been quite useful. With
 de> that site, I have it running on an APU1D (which runs my BBS, Hub 3, my
 de> netware server, an MSDOS 622 and my Windows game server) - which only
 de> has a serial port for a console :)

If you run into that site again, please let us know. I've got a Dell R630 
that fell off the HCL with ESXi 6.7 that I'd like to find a use for.

 de> That said, I was interseted to see the discussion on xcp-ng and
 de> proxmox. ESXi takes up too much of the 4G and I'm wondering if I can
 de> replace it with one of those to get a little bit more ram.

Proxmox is nice, I do want to fire up xcp-ng and take a look. I wonder if I 
can run xcp-ng under Proxmox to test?   :)

(Actually, myold i7 might not support nested virtualization...)


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