On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 08:09:40AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 15/06/18 06:50, Steve Fairhead wrote: > > I gather Amazon are not quite there yet re OpenBSD virtual machines. Can > > anyone here provide a cluebat as to prospects or alternatives? I don't > > want to move away from OpenBSD - it's my security blanket... and I love > > it *so* much... > > I use Vultr for a virtual host which does some static hosting > (openhttpd) and DNS (nsd). They ship an OpenBSD image, but it's based > on OpenBSD 6.0, so you'll want to bring your own ISO image and do the > installation yourself. >
They have 6.3 these days and their support told me if you select their iso instead of bringing your own their provisining system will understand that you run OpenBSD and set kvm_intel.preemption_timer=0 on the hypervisor. I didn't try that though but I did raise a ticket with them to have the flag set on my old VMs, they did that within minutes. They seem to do a staggered upgrade of all their datacenters and new kvm needs that flag so it's a good thing they do that for you. > The console can be a bit idiosyncratic with the installer/console I > find, but it's usable. Once you have a SSH key deployed the console > doesn't matter much. > > That said, I'm interested in alternatives, as Vultr aren't completely > honest with regards to their plans; specifically they don't tell people > that the $2.50/month plans are actually meant as "sandboxes" rather than > permanent instances. > > About their only redeeming feature for me is they've got a few data > centres around the world including Sydney (where my VPS is located) and > they're not expensive. > > Regards, > -- > Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) > > I haven't lost my mind... > ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. > -- I'm not entirely sure you are real.
