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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Grant Sewell wrote:
Hi all, I have just inherited a Sun SunBlade 1000 machine. It would seem that it uses the UltraSPARC III CPU. This would be my first outing into the non x86 world. We are looking to setup 3 virtual machines on this box. I'm happy to setup Debian as the base system (Debian still actively supports the SPARC/SPARC64 arch. doesn't it?) but the guys for whom this machine is being setup have asked for a RedHat/Fedora type system installed on the virtual machines. Anybody got any pointers on running virtual machines on a non-x86 Debian box? What would be the best way to go about it? Know of any recent RedHat-type systems that still actively support SPARCs?
I put Linux (Debian) on an Ultra 5 - some years back - 6 or 7? I couldn't afford the power to run it though...
I also had 2 x Enterprise 2 servers and 2 Ultra 60's - both dual CPU with 4GB of RAM - then were the beasts to have in them days. Never actually got round to putting Linux on them before giving them away. Too scard to actually plug them in & watch my electric meter spin of the wall...
Personally I think you'll find it cheaper and faster (and uses less power) to go out and buy a nice core-2 duo box and be done with it... (but where's the fun in that ;-)
Good luck... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html