Subj : Worky work
To   : deon
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Sat Jan 20 2024 11:52:44

 d>   Re: Worky work
 d>   By: Avon to All on Wed Jan 17 2024 08:38 pm

 d> Howdy,

 >> Been working on setting up a Rpi 4 (8 gig ram) with a 256gig SSD. Mostly
 >> sorted now, plan to do some fun BBS related stuff with it over the coming
 >> months.

 d> In the past we talked about ESXi, and if that Pi doesnt have anything
 d> on it yet, one thing you can play with is ESXi on it. (If you wanted
 d> to that is.)

 d> It works well, mine is around here somewhere.

 d> The plus is you get a web console, and can spin up VMs on it. The
 d> downside, is those VMs can only be 64 bit VMs - ESXi on the Pi cannot
 d> run 32 bit guests (but 64bit guests can run 32 bit apps). Its probably
 d> not a big downside these days - it was only an issue for me running
 d> synchronet which doesnt compile on 64bit ARM (but the 32 bit version
 d> ran fine from memory). 

Proxmox actually runs fine on the RPi 4.  I hade four RPi 4 with 8GB RAM each in a Proxmox cluster for almost a year.  It worked really well actually since I ran all VM:s over the network from a NAS and NFS. 


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