On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:51:56AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > unless you have already used NetBSD as a workstation instead of a > server,
Yes, for 8 years (it was NetBSD 4 when I started using) on various laptops, Raspberry Pi and even on android through an emulator! [ Last one just to see if it works, but remaining are regularly used. ] Among servers: using it on my VPS instance and one public Unix system. > I would advice to try it first in this regard, and check whether > it does support all your laptop's peripherals, Yes, it does. Sole reason I deviated to Linux in 2015 was because of missing USB3 support in NetBSD on this laptop at that time. After 8.0 I am back to using NetBSD. In fact I am already using NetBSD Xen Dom0 on the laptop in question using a USB stick. Once my options are finalized I'll move it to the hard disk. So, used to and prepared to dealing with quirks and live with limitations at times. Would appreciate inputs on whether a vdi disk image with WinXp on it can be reliably converted to a form and used as DomU such that the pre-existing installation continues to work. I have converted it to "raw" format and it boots but leads to BSOD, sometimes taking down Dom0 along! Mayuresh
