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.
In the past we talked about ESXi, and if that Pi doesnt have anything on it yet, one thing you can play with is ESXi on it. (If you wanted to
that is.)
Avon wrote to All <=-
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.
deon wrote to Avon <=-
In the past we talked about ESXi, and if that Pi doesnt have anything
on it yet, one thing you can play with is ESXi on it. (If you wanted to that is.)
I'd just heard that broadcom is getting rid of the "hobbyist" perpetual
ESXi license - which is a huge mistake IMO.
Although having a path for people to learn ESXi at home and to have a
sandbox to play with doesn't fit into Broadcom's master plan of large
enterprise customers and enterprise training/certification.
Proxmox does run well on Pis, and you can get a couple of small VMs
running on a Pi 4 with 8 GB nicely.
Now I have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 sitting idle, looking for a project and a
rack case for them. :)
I'd just heard that broadcom is getting rid of the "hobbyist" perpetual
ESXi license - which is a huge mistake IMO.
I use ESXi at work, but wanted something with a more liberal hardware
compatibility list than what VMWare offered - I had 4 year old servers
fall off the compatibility list with vSphere!
Proxmox does run well on Pis, and you can get a couple of small VMs
running on a Pi 4 with 8 GB nicely.
I've never played with Proxmox (never needed to as I always found a way
to get ESXi installed) - but maybe I should...
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Avon <=-
I replaced my Rpi 4 media server with an old desktop running Windows
- the pi couldn't deal well with streaming video to a 4k screen.
Now I have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 sitting idle, looking for a project and a
rack case for them. :)
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.
I replaced my Rpi 4 media server with an old desktop running Windows 10
- the pi couldn't deal well with streaming video to a 4k screen.
Now I have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 sitting idle, looking for a project and a
rack case for them. :)
I use ESXi at work, but wanted something with a more liberal hardware
compatibility list than what VMWare offered - I had 4 year old servers
fall off the compatibility list with vSphere!
Proxmox does run well on Pis, and you can get a couple of small VMs
running on a Pi 4 with 8 GB nicely.
I have a howto for getting Synchronet working on a Rpi including DOSEMU for running DOS games.You should give it a try. It's somewhere on the Synchronet wiki.
Proxmox does run well on Pis, and you can get a couple of smallVMs
running on a Pi 4 with 8 GB nicely.
niter3 wrote to deon <=-
I'm a former ESXi user of 10-15 years. Moving to Proxmox, I was worried about reliability. I can tell you this, it appears to be as reliable as esxi was for home use.
Blue White wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
With Proxmox on a Pi, can you run non-ARM OSes in those VMs? I read
that you really can't if you are using something like Virtualbox to
host it -- i.e. you cannot run an OS that expects intel hardware too
well -- but am curious about Proxmox.
Blue White wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
With Proxmox on a Pi, can you run non-ARM OSes in those VMs? I read that you really can't if you are using something like Virtualbox to host it -- i.e. you cannot run an OS that expects intel hardware too well -- but am curious about Proxmox.
I think you are limited to ARM OSes. There's an ARM port of Windows
10/11, not sure about software support for it - and a bunch of Linux distros that run as a guest under Proxmox.
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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