The only problem I ever had with running OpenBSD with ESX/i was doing snapshots for backups with BackupExec. With the vmt(4), vCenter and BackupExec *think* that VMware Tools is running and try to quiesce the VM before backing it up. That fails, so the backup fails. Disabling the vmt(4) driver in the kernel allowed vCenter/BackupExec to see OpenBSD as a non-compatible "snapshot capable" system (even though I could take snapshots in general) and would back it up.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Bentley, Dain <dbent...@nas.edu> wrote: > I've personally never has issues and performance is good. I've been running a > php-fpm/nginx stack with OpenBSD and VMware and performance has been great. > Only issue is the tools install. I've had issues with that but it runs fine > without it. I've also run it on KVM and found VMWare to be better. I have > iSCSI storage with ZFS as a backend and can't complain > > Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bogdan Andu [bo...@yahoo.com] > Received: Tuesday, 05 Feb 2013, 6:04am > To: misc@openbsd.org [misc@openbsd.org] > Subject: openbsd and vmware > > Hello, > > A few questions related to openbsd and vmware. > > > What are the best practices to run OpenBSD in vmware? > > Are there any known problems one should take into consideration before > virtualization? > > I already have a functional machine runnig OpenBSD 5.2 /amd64 on bare metal. > > It is possible to create a virtual machine from one already running apart from > installing the os in vm and then migrating and installing all applications? > > Thank you in advanced, > > Bogdan
