Subj : Retro virtualization platform?
To   : acn
From : deon
Date : Mon Dec 27 2021 11:09:07

  Re: Retro virtualization platform?
  By: acn to All on Sun Dec 26 2021 04:08 pm

Hi Anna,

 > So my question is: Does anybody else use a 'hosted environment' for
 > retro PC OSes?

Yes, I do, and it's ESXi.

I'm a huge fan of ESXi - I kinda treat it like "PC firmware". It gives me a way to remotely manage a (virtual) PC both when it's off and on, via a browser. I also like that i can spin up another machine on the same hardware, or snapshot the current one if I think I'm going to do something portentially destructive.

And for NW, I run it on an old AMD G-T40E, and once the NW4_IDLE is loaded, it uses next to no CPU.

Probably the only thing I dont like is loosing temp and fan controls (in machines that have them) (eg my Pi4 and Supermicro) - and there may well be a way to do that at the hypervisor or even pass that to a guest, I just havent figured it out (nor looked at it in much depth).

Actually for the Supermicro I did figure out how to get drive temps - which helped me figure out why a drive kept going offline (it was getting way hot - 80' at one point).


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