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.
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