On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 22:14:25 +0100 Sterling Archer <deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:07 PM, Consus <con...@ftml.net> wrote: > > On 16:37 Mon 08 Jan, Galaxy Júpiter wrote: > >> Why OpenBSD now have their own native virtualisation layer? > >> Why Theo de Raadt changed your opinion about virtual machines? > >> What is the current opinion of Theo de Raadt about virtual > >> machines? > > > > What does Theo de Raadt eat for breakfast? > > Even trolls have their use. In the fall of 2014 I assumed that OpenBSD was my escape hatch to avoid Systemd. Then I found out that OpenBSD's qemu didn't have the stuff to use the processor hardware to speed things up (Linux types seem to call this ability "KVM", and an AMD processor can do it if and only if the processor has the "svm" flag), which made virtual machines useless. So I moved my business to Void Linux. Virtual machines are pretty much necessary, because no matter what distribution of what OS you run, there are always those one or two apps you can't get from the package manager and can't compile, so you need to use a VM. The first six months I used Void Linux I ran LyX on a Ubuntu VM to compile my books. If this new VM system comprised of vmd and vmm and vmctl does what qemu does AND implements the machine's hardware to do normal hardware processing to attain reasonable speeds, then I have an excellent alternative. So, does this new OpenBSD virtual machine system have hardware acceleration? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
