On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Haven't tried esxi 5 but I have some hack VMs under 4.1 which are > working ok (i386 and amd64). Some things to try:- > > - Try different "guest os types" in the vm config page. On 4.1 > I typically set rhel 5 32-bit which seems to work fairly well, > even for amd64, and uses the vic(4) network driver. > I used FreeBSD 64bit for the guest type. I will try using different guest types if switching to i386 doesn't improve it. > - Try i386. > > - If you're overcommitting RAM, can you avoid doing that? > I have allocated less than 50% of the RAM, and almost none of it is being used. > > - Might be worth giving -current a spin (or 5.0 when it's > available - release isn't far off - note that people who pre-order > CDs often receive them before the official release date ;-) > Does 5.0 have VM specific features in it? > > > On 2011-10-19, Gene <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I > > set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of > disk > > space each. I used the install49.iso as my installation medium. Aside > from > > the OS installation, I haven't installed anything on them yet. > > > > They perform terribly. The load average hovers around 1.5 on all of > these > > VMs although the CPU shows as being idle. Connecting via SSH and > switching > > to root can take over a minute. If I reboot the virtual machines they > > perform well for a short time, but within 15-30 minutes they slow down to > a > > crawl again. > > > > These four machines are spread across two VM hosts, each with six cores > and > > 16 GB of RAM each. I haven't started doing anything with these VMs yet. > I > > have other VMs installed (Linux and FreeBSD) and they don't have this > > problem. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there tuning I can do to > make > > it work better? I tried disabling mpbios, that did not have an effect. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -Gene
