Is this easier with an ubuntu server with livepatch stuff? Any alternatives that can do security patches without forcing a reboot?
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It’s a used Tower fitted T320. I swapped a motherboard in to make it a T420 (from single cpu to dual socket). The cpus were cheap. RAM was a bit to chew on but worthwhile if I end up with lots of VMs.
As of now it’s more of a experiment. I may migrate over production apps and home serving services. I am just learning and its really way more horse power than I need till I learn more. I’m hoping to run some VMs of different distributions as I learn Linux. I will probably end up moving it to proxmox for that purpose. It’s housing 6 8TB exos drives, a nvme card and a few 2.5in SSDs.
I may have it be a local redundant backup.
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nice! should try / go with RHEL8(free now) or a rhel base like Cent or Fedora, a lot of that is “industry standard” and will work across most other distros . Unless the distro in question is one thats not like the other girls cough Gentoo cough
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Its insane to see a RISC-V system. Its feels expensive and exotic. Much like 
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From BSD Challenge - #224 by Biky
Unfortunately, I’ve been plagued with power outages and I had to also move my servers last spring + updates that required reboots… I only have 81 days of uptime on pfSense and 86 days on my last remaining Proxmox server.
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Done.
https://forum.level1techs.com/badges/125/reliable
This is obviously a very manual process. If anyone sees (or posts) an uptime that earns the badge, just @ me or another mod.
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@SgtAwesomesauce look at that uptime!
@xzpfzxds is this a production VM host, or it’s your personal VM host, just curious.
Edit: I obviously meant host.
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Personal, VMs (almalinux) are running mail server, websites and some databases. I’d be more concerned about the ancient kernel if anything other than just QEMU was running on the host, and if untrusted VMs were running underneath 
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Looks interesting, but since I won’t be using this as a desktop I’m kinda happy with the way it is now. I’ve recently restricted the host to 1 core and used the other remaining core to a FreeBSD machine which I intend to host files from, using vfio again to pass a thunderbolt connection.
Set the emulator pins for the 1st core, 2nd core compiling from ports while I was gaming on the remaining machine without any frame rate impact. I really like this. I just wish I had moar coars since 6/12 seems so few now. =(
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>riscv64
Now that’s a flex!
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I’m jealous of your machine and patience. How many days compiling?
Also how is the CPU fan? I heard it is not very silent.
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only took about 5 hours for a basic install, also yeah I replaced the fan with a 40mm Noctua fan
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5h is pretty fast, definitely not what I was expecting. It takes 2-3 days to compile LibreOffice on my OC’ed 2GHz RPi 4. Now I kinda want to try Gentoo on it (I know there’s an image for it), but I want my Pi to be working, not to test distros out.
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Can you elaborate how usable the performance of the riscv is currently, please. Is it on raspberry pi leveles or way above those? Basically is it usable for every day tasks or is it still far behind?
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uuhh, I would say it’s below raspberry pi performance. Though it is surpringly usable, though it’s not daily driver material yet. CPU is way too anemic for that
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