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  • Re: Linux

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Lonewolf on Sat Oct 25 13:07:05 2025
    Lonewolf wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Something I'm fairly new to is Proxmox. I'm running a VM of Windows 10
    32 bit to host my Synchronet BBS server under it. It's been up about a month now and so far it seems pretty snappy on an older Dell i5 7th gen Intel with 32G memory. I'm also hosting PiHole on the same Proxmox
    server. I think I like it better than Virtual Box, performance wise.

    Welcome down the rabbit hole!

    I worked with VMWare for a couple of years on high-end hardware, dealt
    with VMWare's hardware compatibility list changes, and got used to VMs
    being particular about their hardware.

    I took the laptop the BBS ran on in bare metal, added some more memory
    (it was running 32-bit Windows, so only 4GB) and put Proxmox on it.
    Re-installed the BBS as a guest on the same hardware, and it ran
    perfectly - plus gave me the ability to do snapshots and run other VMs
    as well.



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Oct 25 17:35:59 2025
    Re: Re: Linux
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Lonewolf on Sat Oct 25 2025 01:07 pm


    I took the laptop the BBS ran on in bare metal, added some more
    memory (it was running 32-bit Windows, so only 4GB) and put Proxmox
    on it. Re-installed the BBS as a guest on the same hardware,
    and it ran perfectly - plus gave me the ability to do snapshots
    and run other VMs as well.


    long time user of proxmox here, which is the interface to qemu vms.
    That is not really an ideal environment to run VMS from a hardware standpoint. I couldn't pick a worse environment, without being ridiculous.
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  • From Lonewolf@VERT/BINARYDR to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Oct 25 17:59:58 2025
    Re: Re: Linux
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Lonewolf on Sat Oct 25 2025 01:07 pm

    Lonewolf wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Something I'm fairly new to is Proxmox. I'm running a VM of Windows 10 32
    bit to host my Synchronet BBS server under it. It's been up about a month
    now and so far it seems pretty snappy on an older Dell i5 7th gen Intel
    with 32G memory. I'm also hosting PiHole on the same Proxmox server. I
    think I like it better than Virtual Box, performance wise.

    Welcome down the rabbit hole!

    I worked with VMWare for a couple of years on high-end hardware, dealt with VMWare's hardware compatibility list changes, and got used to VMs being particular about their hardware.

    I took the laptop the BBS ran on in bare metal, added some more memory (it was running 32-bit Windows, so only 4GB) and put Proxmox on it. Re-installed the BBS as a guest on the same hardware, and it ran perfectly - plus gave me the ability to do snapshots and run other VMs as well.

    Yes, besides the Windows 10 32 bit host for the BBS being very snappy under Proxmox, I like being able to easily back up the VM. Compared to Virtual Box, Proxmox handles resources a lot better in my experience.

    Lonewolf
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to MRO on Sat Oct 25 20:33:22 2025
    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    long time user of proxmox here, which is the interface to qemu vms.
    That is not really an ideal environment to run VMS from a hardware standpoint. I couldn't pick a worse environment, without being
    ridiculous.

    As usual, your post makes no sense.

    If you couldn't pick a worse environment (than Proxmox), then *WHY* are
    you "a long time user of Proxmox"? Why don't you use something else?

    <DUH> <DUH>



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  • From Retroswim@VERT/ALTERANT to Denn on Mon Oct 27 14:06:36 2025
    Dosbox has limitations, I like running old dos programs in a VM with MS-DOS6.2. But I do use DOS box x sometimes or vdos.

    I can't speak for DOSBox-X, but vanilla DOSBox doesn't do file locking or anything, which can result in corrupted data for things like BBSes where multiple nodes may be accessing the same files, and expecting locks to behave in an expected way.

    VDos I believe does this correctly, VMs will, dosemu(2) does too.

    But this is why the DOSBox devs always said on the support forums: don't use DOSBox for non-game software.

    Cheers,
    RetroSwim

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