[NBLUG/talk] VMware on Linux on Xen with non-linux Dom0...

[Robert P. Thille]

I've got a board (EPIA EN15000G) which won't run linux stable. Even 
without X it'll crash within a few hours or days if loaded up at all. 
(just locks up, no ping, nothing on the console). memtest86 didn't show 
anything, and a similar CPU and disk test runs fine for days with NetBSD 
on the box...

Since I was hoping to use this box to run all the various things 
(NetBSD/Linux/Windows) I sometimes need to run without rebooting I _was_ 
going to run linux on the hardware, and NetBSD & Windows under VMWare. 
However, with Linux being unstable on this hardware, I thought I might 
be able to go at it from the other direction.  I thought about trying to 
run VMWare directly on NetBSD, but from the looks of it, the package for 
it is extremely old.

So, am I crazy for thinking this might work? Does vmware need to run on 
the OS running on the hardware?

Thanks,

Robert

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