NetBSD (performance) in VMM

LevArris

Pls don’t have any expectations. I’m just playing around and have way to little time for my dreams 😜
But: there are some triggers that make me wish to switch my thinkpad L580 from ghostbsd to openbsd.
At the same time I would try to compile some software on NetBSD 10 rc1. Is vmm fast enough to run NetBSD on it and compile software on it?

In general i think as a n00b (in terms of BSD’s and compiling) it is better to compile in a vm in terms of rollback possibilities. I can use snapshots or copies of the vm file in case I fkd up the machine (which definitely will happen) .

Kind regards

Jay

NetBSD is very cross compiling compatible so you probably do compiling without having VM. What's your goal?

LevArris

Jay

First and foremost sorry for the late answer. I have busy days these days 😉
I try to explain. Pls keep in mind that my English is not good. English isn’t my mother tongue..

I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad here. They are known to be pretty well supported by BSDs. So I thought I can give it a second life. Because I have one Thinkpad but more than one goal.
In my holiday i tried to make me familiar with compiling software on NetBSD. It was a mess tbh. So my idea was to make further attempts in a VM to keep my tries in a VM instead of mess up or bloat my real hardware. It’s more then 20 years ago when I wrote and compiled software. So I’m n00bish while I remember some parts. My thought is to create a VM with a good basic setup wich I will save and were I can fall back to, when I get stuck again.
On the same time I want to use the Thinkpad for other productive things too. For this my favourite is OpenBSD.

So my idea was to install OpenBSD for my browsing, texmaker stuff etc. And virtualise NetBSD for my compiling experiments with VMM.

I hope I could clarify the situation a bit.

Kind regards