Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-08 Thread Norman Golisz
On Thu Feb 7 2013 17:50, Jan Lambertz wrote: > I also tried the socket trick in different setups but couldn't make it > work. You *do* boot bsd.mp, right? Because bsd.rd never recognised a such configured VM as being SMP-capable in my case, and installed bsd.sp by default, instead. > I tried a s

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-07 Thread Norman Golisz
On Thu Feb 7 2013 05:33, Jan Lambertz wrote: > problems i found using kvm and openbsd: > SMP not working as it should. I usually increase the number of virtual sockets to get those extra cores recognised by OpenBSD. This seems to make the hypervisor produce better ACPI routing information ... >

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-07 Thread Jan Lambertz
I also tried the socket trick in different setups but couldn't make it work. I tried a smp 4,threads 1 cores 1 sockets 4. Sysctl tells cpus are found but not used. Did you pass any special cpu information to qemu ? Virtio: i'm not following current right now, but this are great news. Thank you.

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-06 Thread Jan Lambertz
I'm Using KVM to virtualize OpenBSD 5.2 right now. I'm not that impressed about Vmware. I used a esxi server for 2 years extensivly. Things i didnt like : cli,closed software,bloated,technical documentation,gui. Not that KVM is much better at this point,but at least, i have the sources. problems i

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Matthias Appel
Am 05.02.2013 19:44, schrieb Mike Erdely: The only problem I ever had with running OpenBSD with ESX/i was doing snapshots for backups with BackupExec. With the vmt(4), vCenter and BackupExec *think* that VMware Tools is running and try to quiesce the VM before backing it up. That fails, so the

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Mike Erdely
The only problem I ever had with running OpenBSD with ESX/i was doing snapshots for backups with BackupExec. With the vmt(4), vCenter and BackupExec *think* that VMware Tools is running and try to quiesce the VM before backing it up. That fails, so the backup fails. Disabling the vmt(4) driver i

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Bentley, Dain
I've personally never has issues and performance is good. I've been running a php-fpm/nginx stack with OpenBSD and VMware and performance has been great. Only issue is the tools install. I've had issues with that but it runs fine without it. I've also run it on KVM and found VMWare to be better. I

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Matthias Appel
Am 05.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Dan Shechter: My product, which is a networking virtual appliance, is running on ESXi without any problems. I ran it as 32 bit since I also run the product on an HW appliance which do not run 64bit. Best regards, Dan On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Bogdan Andu wr

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Dan Shechter
My product, which is a networking virtual appliance, is running on ESXi without any problems. I ran it as 32 bit since I also run the product on an HW appliance which do not run 64bit. Best regards, Dan On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Bogdan Andu wrote: > Hello, > > A few questions related to

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread mxb
vmnet2 works fine too. On 5 feb 2013, at 16:14, Reyk Floeter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 07:19:02AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >> Take a physical machine, disk image it, drop it on vmware, boot single >> user, mount root partition, rename hostname.whatever0 to hostname.em0, > > You can als

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 07:19:02AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > Take a physical machine, disk image it, drop it on vmware, boot single > user, mount root partition, rename hostname.whatever0 to hostname.em0, You can also change the ethernet0.virtualDev setting from "e1000" to "vmxnet" in your .vmx

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Bogdan Andu
Thank you Nick, for your answers. I'll definitely consider them when I'll start to try these things out. Bogdan From: Nick Holland To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:19 PM Subject: Re: openbsd and vmware On 02/05/13 06:03, B

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Jiri B
Try to consider oVirt[1], it is open-source, based on top of KVM, aims to be vSphere competitor. ...forgotten url - http://www.ovirt.org jirib

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Jiri B
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:03:34AM -0800, Bogdan Andu wrote: > Hello, > > A few questions related to openbsd and vmware. > > > What are the best practices to run OpenBSD in vmware? > > Are there any known problems one should take into consideration before > virtualization? > > I already have

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/05/13 06:03, Bogdan Andu wrote: > Hello, > > A few questions related to openbsd and vmware. > > > What are the best practices to run OpenBSD in vmware? Just Do It? I haven't found any problems running OpenBSD in VMware ESXi or whatever they call it this week. I usually just tell the mana