INTEL NUC I5 AS VM SERVER
After about a year with the Celeron 847 NUC (DCCP847DYE) with Debian and qemu I decided to upgrade the little one with another little one: the newer NUC i5-4250 (D54250WYK) and Debian 7, some notes:
it supports ONLY DDR3L, which means only 1.35v sodimms, so you cannot reuse the 1.5v ram you already have..
it has some issues with video outs, I had to disconnect, reboot and reconnect many times in order to obtain a signal on the monitor and after that if I switch the monitor input to another and get back to the NUC’s one I have to reboot to, hopefully, get the signal back..
I read that some “old” netinst of Debian hadn’t the drivers for the Gigabit ethernet interface so you had to boot an unstable to have the driver, I teste with netinst of Debian 7.5 (downloaded today 2014/05/27) and it has the drivers needed
I chose this version of the NUC instead the one with 2.5″ HDD support because this one was ready available and for the moment I could use the mSata disk I already have to boot the os.