[Simh] SIMH 3.8-1 IDLE in VMS, interesting CPU usage

[Toby Thain]

On 17-Feb-09, at 9:36 PM, Marc Chametzky wrote:

>> You might want to compare VirtualBox. I recently set up JeOS in  
>> VirtualBox 2.1.2, went very smoothly.
>
> I wanted to go with ESXi because I wanted to try using a bare-metal  
> hypervisor. Of course, I'm not sure there'd be that much difference  
> with VirtualBox running inside an ubuntu JeOS system, but it could  
> potentially add one additional layer of indirection.
>
> Additionally, I knew that ESXi supported VLANs, and I wanted to be  
> able to set up resource limits on some virtual machines

Solaris zones/containers? Just more ideas... Although there were  
limitations on routing when I first started using zones.

--Toby



> (such as "vaxhost" since it's likely to be CPU bound). I hadn't  
> checked, but I had assumed that these features might not be  
> available in VirtualBox. (A check right now confirmed that my  
> expectations may be correct, although I did not examine the  
> documentation that closely and may have missed something.)


>
> --Marc