We do have small budget to buy hardware - like we have an Apple M1 server hosted by William. It's more a question of setting it up and hooking it on the internet. Can one run a VM server, capable of running a 32-bit guest OS, on the M1 machine?
Dima On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 8:14 AM John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well I am giving up on using my 20+-year-old hardware. I have made many > attempts to install a 32-bit distro (debian, MX, Mint) but all failed -- in > the case of Mint, there was kernel panic before it even got going. I did a > 100% successful memtest but there must be other hardware problems. To the > dump! > > I have never tried any emulation. My own newest (9 year old) laptop has > sufficient power but rather little space on its disk (even after deleting all > those iso images I downloaded). Other machines I have access to are heavily > used by people who need them (e.g. for their PhDs) and quite old too, so I > would be nervous about using them. > > Without that, eclib will not get any 32-bit testing, unfortunately. > > John > > On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 12:46, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Using qemu/kvm is definitely the way to go for development. You'll save lots >> of time compiling/testing with a modern CPU. There is also a number of >> utilities that simplify setting up virtual machines, e.g. gnome-boxes >> >> >> On Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 5:08:57 PM UTC+1 Georgi Guninski wrote: >>> >>> > VirtualBox VMWare >>> >>> I have been using qemu for more than 10 years and i am satisfied. >>> Advantages: works fine everywhere. doesn't require any extra kernel modules >>> Disadvantages: misses some shiny "features" like shared clipboard, >>> but it is security advantage. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/pQw-LawYZPA/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/c37d3e6e-6f99-48b9-a6f7-f0a1ed69d364n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K68wAx5Vfsu8iRVfpqs6wWUC9JVcW-vOTq--bku-xsZWw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq3Q-M6aerGVh4-EE5cC-5Dn-xER%2B%3DYvR_x7Ei5em-mokQ%40mail.gmail.com.
