[Soekris] Any suggestion for alternative?

[Steve Holdoway]

While I agree with the speed sentiment, Vmware *doesn't* require a special processor. Xen does, and I think qemu does as well...

Steve

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:17 -0700
Sean McGrath <sean at manybits.net> wrote:

> 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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