Folks, I'm kinda worried with the performance: the host is a Dell R815 4 CPU Opteron 6136 / 64GB. There are no other VMs at the moment, just a single stance of OpenBSD 5.8 installed, 4 virtual CPUs, 8 GB RAM.
I've already enabled softdep on fstab, however it's taking more than 45 minutes to compile the kernel (no modifications, GENERIC and GENERIC.MP aswell, and no installation -- I'm just doing this to benchmark). Two hours ago I've started the make build and it seems its stalled on the cleaning phase yet. I don't think this is right... If needed, I can provide dmesg or any other information related to this. Once again, thanks a lot. On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Comète <com...@daknet.org> wrote: > 2 décembre 2015 13:00 "Felipe Gomes" <felan...@gmail.com> a écrit: > > 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 outdated.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 > > Hi, > > works here like a charm, on prod with OpenBSD 5.8 amd64 : > > Guest OS is FreeBSD 64 > NIC is VMXNET3 > scsi controller is paravirtual > > multiple openbsd VMs on vmware since 3 years without any problems. > > Morgan
