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
>
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>
> -----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

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