I just wanted to thank everyone for their feedback. Thanks a lot! You guys are amazing.
Best regards, Felipe Gomes On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Bruno Flueckiger <inform...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 01.12.2015 16:50, Felipe Gomes wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I've been trying to search for more information on OpenBSD as a VMWare >> guest, but I wasn't able to find much... and the information is pretty >> much >> outdated. >> >> What are the recommendations for OpenBSD 5.8 (amd64) as a guest on VMware >> 5.5? >> >> Guest Operating System: should I pick "Other (64bit)" or FreeBSD? >> >> How does OpenBSD work with "virtual sockets" and "cores per virtual >> socket"? >> >> What is the best NIC? E1000, E1000E, VMXNET2 ENHANCED or VMXNET3? >> >> What is the recommended SCSI Controller? LSI Logic Parallel, LSI Logic SAS >> or VMware Paravirtual? >> >> I'd believe that all of these options work... I just don't know which is >> more stable or perform better. >> >> Any other tips on fine tunning or special setting? >> >> I'm planning on migrating a few Soekris boxes to virtual machines. Is this >> reliable? Is anyone running production OpenBSD servers on VMware? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> > > I run a productive SMTP server with OpenBSD 5.8-stable on VMware 5.5 for > some > months and so far I didn't experience any problems. Guest OS is FreeBSD, > NIC > is VMXNET3 and the controller is LSI Logic Parallel. > > There are plans for more OpenBSD servers on VMware in the company I work > for > due to the small footprint of the OS and the very good experience we have > so > far. > > Cheers, > Bruno
