Ive heard or bare-metal hypervisors and thought about having some stripped down system installed for the sole purpose of launching the VM and wanted to discuss this before I choose the motherboard, parts etc.
So here is the basic premise I’m looking to build a small computer,
But still want to have the user experience of running it directly on the hardware.
For example, use of USB, physical hard disks, keyboard combinations, system off when the vm has shut down etc
Drivers and new hardware breaking compatibility with older systems is the main point of this approach.
This and some operating systems having different maximum settings or could utilize all the system resources
Seen some Intel Nucs and Rock pi but i would be looking for a unit with good options for cooling but i hear AMD has less hardware level backdoors from the PLA and NSA(compared with Intel) most viruses these days use backdoors that PRC and USA explicitly asked for anyway(dont forget those daily updates subject to this same premise).
What i an looking to build is for running software and some USB peripherals from the more recent era of retro computing,
and also some software/website testing.
It would in theory be easy to get drivers for the more generic hardware simulated by the hypervisor and thus I only have to deal with the driver and secureboot headache once.
What would be a good choice for virtual machine software?
So here is the basic premise I’m looking to build a small computer,
- Hardware directly: short list of supported systems(limited driver availability)
- Virtualisation: Long list of supported systems(drivers easier to get)
I want to configure a single board x86 computer to simply run a virtual machineHow do I get the sound to work in “emulator” for Old/Obscure OS?
How do I get the sound to work in “NicheMmotherboard123” for Old/Obscure OS?
But still want to have the user experience of running it directly on the hardware.
For example, use of USB, physical hard disks, keyboard combinations, system off when the vm has shut down etc
Drivers and new hardware breaking compatibility with older systems is the main point of this approach.
This and some operating systems having different maximum settings or could utilize all the system resources
Seen some Intel Nucs and Rock pi but i would be looking for a unit with good options for cooling but i hear AMD has less hardware level backdoors from the PLA and NSA(compared with Intel) most viruses these days use backdoors that PRC and USA explicitly asked for anyway(dont forget those daily updates subject to this same premise).
What i an looking to build is for running software and some USB peripherals from the more recent era of retro computing,
and also some software/website testing.
It would in theory be easy to get drivers for the more generic hardware simulated by the hypervisor and thus I only have to deal with the driver and secureboot headache once.
What would be a good choice for virtual machine software?