[Soekris] Any suggestion for alternative?

[Sean McGrath]

x86 emulation to run a software virtual machine
would be painfully slow. Virtual machine hypervisors
like VMware require processors that support virtualization.
I don't think any Soekris board has the required CPU.

-- 
Sean McGrath
sean at manybits.net

Florian Klemenz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sunday, March 16, 2008, 14:00, you wrote:
> 
>>         Do you think a 55XX would have enough horsepower
>> to run something like FreeBSD with VMWare on top of it 
>> with Win98? The machine is only used for access in and out
>> of the Fire Station. Having it crash during a fire is a bad
>> thing. They would use something like VNC to administer it.
> 
> VMware does not run on FreeBSD, but a Debian Linux with VMware Server
> should work (not tried though). That way you don't even need a
> graphics card in that machine. Administration could be done using the
> VMware Server Console on another Linux or Windows Machine or by
> installing VNC inside that Win98 VM.
> 
> Florian
> 
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