Subj : Re: Photographs of your BBS
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Tue Dec 19 2023 07:26 am

On 17 Dec 2023 at 08:14a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF>  I was running a 32-bit OS on a system with 8 GB of RAM and didn't want
 pF>  the ram above 4GB to go to waste - so I installed Proxmox, virtualized
 pF>  the BBS, and got enough headroom to run a couple of small VMs on the
 pF>  same hardware that had run the BBS only. And, Snapshots! I love being
 pF>  able to take a snapshot before upgrading the BBS.

Would it have?  If the CPU supports PAE (or the equivalent for
other architectures) you can still make use of the RAM, just
not in a single virtual address space.

None of which means you shouldn't run VMs, though.

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