Re: OpenBSD xen and AWS

2023-10-26 Thread All
Antoine, I actually did use that repo for building and running openbsd on AWS. Unfortunately, I don't have access to physical openbsd machine to create vmdk now. So, I had to resort to running qemu and installing openbsd there, followed by the steps I outlined below. There was a community AMI

Re: OpenBSD xen and AWS

2023-10-26 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:01:06PM +, All wrote: > OK, thanks to Mike and Antoine! > I tried with t2 instances (current generation - the only choice present), yet > still no dice. Perhaps, the issue is with how I created the image. > I used qemu, created qcow2, installed openbsd, converted qcow

Re: OpenBSD xen and AWS

2023-10-26 Thread All
OK, thanks to Mike and Antoine! I tried with t2 instances (current generation - the only choice present), yet still no dice. Perhaps, the issue is with how I created the image. I used qemu, created qcow2, installed openbsd, converted qcow2 to raw and then with vmdktool converted raw to vmdk. AWS r

Re: OpenBSD xen and AWS

2023-10-26 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:40:34PM +, All wrote: > Hi, > > There was a time when we could run OpenBSD on AWS. > Antoine Jacoutot did a great work to make that possible. > These days, xnf0 interface is not being initialized. Xen is being > identified as Xen 4.11 (12?) but no xnf interfaces are

OpenBSD xen and AWS

2023-10-24 Thread All
Hi, There was a time when we could run OpenBSD on AWS. Antoine Jacoutot did a great work to make that possible. These days, xnf0 interface is not being initialized. Xen is being identified as Xen 4.11 (12?) but no xnf interfaces are sowing up after boot. NetBSD has xennet0 being initiated and Free

OpenBSD & Xen Server & Watchdog Timeout & PCI Passthrough

2010-10-11 Thread Keith
I'm trying to get a working OBSD virtual machine with networking working as a DomU in a xen server but keep coming up again network Watchdog Timeout errors. So I spent today trying to get PCI pass-though working with Xen and OBSD with the belief that if I could get some network cards into the

OpenBSD/Xen

2006-10-07 Thread ropers
Hi yers, I have posted a transcript of the recent bsdtalk interview with Christoph Egger (main developer of the OpenBSD Xen port) to: http://ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/ The original interview is at: http://tinyurl.com/er9a3 Anyone wanting to install an OpenBSD DomU (OpenBSD guest) under Xen