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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:49:19 +0100 (BST) Gordon Henderson wrote: > 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 Point taken... but I'm not the one paying the electricity bill! :D We had intended on purchasing another cheapy Dell box to do the job, but this was going for free and the guys want something ASAP rather than waiting for Management to decide whether to actually spend some money or not. Grant. -- 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