> New MICROVM kernel for x86, supporting both i386 and amd64, NetBSD 11.0 introduces a dedicated MICROVM kernel designed for extremely fast virtual machines boot, leveraging PVH boot, VirtIO MMIO, and multiple kernel optimizations, it can boot in about 10 ms on 2020-era x86 CPUs.
Exciting
This sounds pretty cool. I have a couple of old DELL 630s that were automotive diagnostic computers, due to them being the last model with a real hardware serial port. Now I am thinking of reviving them with Linux, but just to host old windows VMs (all the auto diag software is windows only). Maybe I should give netbsd a try here.
great callout
Fun fact: NetBSD supports VAX 70/380 system from 1978/79!
That's the oldest known architecture that can run modern Unix. 32 bit, MMU, multi cpu: ahead of it's time.
So if you travel back in time: that's a safe platform if you would like to do some system programming with modern knowledge.