Re: running openbsd as guest OS under KVM virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4

2022-12-23 Thread Sandeep Gupta
; > I have posted the question also on serverfault ( > > > https://serverfault.com/questions/1118710/install-openbsd-as-guest-os-in-kvm-virtualization-on-fedora-running-raspberry-pi > ). > > > > If anyone has experience/ideas on how to go about it, it will be of great >

Re: running openbsd as guest OS under KVM virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4

2022-12-23 Thread Bodie
On Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 12:29 PM CET, Sandeep Gupta wrote: > Has anyone tried running openbsd as a guest OS under KVM on arm hardware? > I have posted the question also on serverfault ( > https://serverfault.com/questions/1118710/install-openbsd-as-guest-os-in-kvm-virtualization-on-fedor

running openbsd as guest OS under KVM virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4

2022-12-23 Thread Sandeep Gupta
Has anyone tried running openbsd as a guest OS under KVM on arm hardware? I have posted the question also on serverfault ( https://serverfault.com/questions/1118710/install-openbsd-as-guest-os-in-kvm-virtualization-on-fedora-running-raspberry-pi). If anyone has experience/ideas on how to go about

Re: virtualization in openbsd running on Raspberry pi

2022-12-22 Thread Bodie
On 22.12.2022 04:17, Sandeep Gupta wrote: Just wanted to double confirm that it's not possible to run virtual instances of openBSD on openBSD running on Raspberry Pi. This is because the CPU has no support for SLAT/EPT (but these are only for intel/amd. doesn't say about arm). https://www.

Re: virtualization in openbsd running on Raspberry pi

2022-12-21 Thread Sandeep Gupta
Got it. Thank you for confirming. On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 8:58 AM Mike Larkin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 08:47:00AM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote: > > Just wanted to double confirm that it's not possible to run virtual > > instances of openBSD on openBSD running on Raspberry Pi. > > This is b

Re: virtualization in openbsd running on Raspberry pi

2022-12-21 Thread Mike Larkin
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 08:47:00AM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote: > Just wanted to double confirm that it's not possible to run virtual > instances of openBSD on openBSD running on Raspberry Pi. > This is because the CPU has no support for SLAT/EPT (but these are only for > intel/amd. doesn't say abou

virtualization in openbsd running on Raspberry pi

2022-12-21 Thread Sandeep Gupta
Just wanted to double confirm that it's not possible to run virtual instances of openBSD on openBSD running on Raspberry Pi. This is because the CPU has no support for SLAT/EPT (but these are only for intel/amd. doesn't say about arm). Also, in my instance, I don't see vmctl installed. In fact, d

Re: nested virtualization with vmm on hyper-v

2021-10-30 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 08:56:53PM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote: [cut] > I told Microsoft years ago that their implementation of legacy event injection > was broken. This is how we inject interrupts in vmm(4). They either didn't > understand, or didn't care. Since hyper-v doesn't deliver our injected e

Re: nested virtualization with vmm on hyper-v

2021-10-30 Thread Mike Larkin
t; > So after a long time of not looking into this I asked someone how they did > virtualization nesting and I got this link: > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/nested-virtualization > > So this is good, I thought, I followed the inst

nested virtualization with vmm on hyper-v

2021-10-30 Thread Peter J. Philipp
Hi, I'm a little confused by this. I have an old Xeon e3-1275v3 computer that runs windows server 2019 essentials natively. It shares half it's RAM and 2 cores with OpenBSD as a hyper-v guest. So after a long time of not looking into this I asked someone how they did virtualization n

Re: Upgrade procedure for VMM virtualization server

2019-05-06 Thread mabi
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, May 6, 2019 1:32 PM, Solene Rapenne wrote: > There are no order. But I would upgrade the host, then the VM, this > requires only one downtime for the whole stack. Thanks for confirming, I will then do so.

Re: Upgrade procedure for VMM virtualization server

2019-05-06 Thread Solene Rapenne
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 11:16:18AM +, mabi wrote: > Hello, > > Now that 6.5 is out I was wondering what is the best approach of upgrading my > OpenBSD 6.4 VMM virtualization server, should I first upgrade the VMM > hypervisor host from 6.4 to 6.5 and then afterwards the v

Upgrade procedure for VMM virtualization server

2019-05-06 Thread mabi
Hello, Now that 6.5 is out I was wondering what is the best approach of upgrading my OpenBSD 6.4 VMM virtualization server, should I first upgrade the VMM hypervisor host from 6.4 to 6.5 and then afterwards the virtual machines from 6.4 to 6.5? That would make sense to me but I just wanted to

Virtualization: bad interrupt line

2016-06-04 Thread bluesun08
ng OpenBSD there is the following error-message in OpenBSD: athn0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Atheros AR9287" rev 0x01pci_intr_map: bad interrupt line 19 : can't map interrupt Where could be the problem? -- View this message in context: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Vir

Re: Virtualization: vmm with Linux guests - when?

2015-11-21 Thread Mike Larkin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 03:46:59PM +, Luis P. Mendes wrote: > Hi, > > I know that development time is not a determinisc thing, but > nonetheless I'd like to know if it's closer to one, six, twelve (or > more) months until we get the possibility to run Linux guests > through vmm. No

Re: Virtualization: vmm

2015-11-19 Thread lists
> Thanks in advance for any info on this. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/amd64/vmm.4 http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/vmm.c

Re: Virtualization: vmm with Linux guests - when?

2015-11-17 Thread lists
> I know that development time is not a determinisc thing There is one very deterministic correlation though: contributions help realise goals. > nonetheless I'd like to know if it's closer to one, six, twelve (or > more) months until we get the possibility to run Linux guests > through v

Re: Virtualization: vmm with Linux guests - when?

2015-11-17 Thread Peter Kay
On 17 November 2015 15:46:59 GMT+00:00, "Luis P. Mendes" wrote: > Hi, > > I know that development time is not a determinisc thing, but > nonetheless I'd like to know if it's closer to one, six, twelve (or > more) months until we get the possibility to run Linux guests > through vmm. You'd be

Re: Virtualization: vmm with Linux guests - when?

2015-11-17 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On 11/17/2015 05:46 PM, Luis P. Mendes wrote: Hi, I know that development time is not a determinisc thing, but nonetheless I'd like to know if it's closer to one, six, twelve (or more) months until we get the possibility to run Linux guests through vmm. I'd be happy even witho

Virtualization: vmm with Linux guests - when?

2015-11-17 Thread Luis P. Mendes
Hi, I know that development time is not a determinisc thing, but nonetheless I'd like to know if it's closer to one, six, twelve (or more) months until we get the possibility to run Linux guests through vmm. I'd be happy even without a graphical interface, if the clients can run in

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-18 Thread Jiri B
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:22:10PM -0700, pixelfairy wrote: > You might want xen and run openbsd as dom0 So port it, otherwise have nice (wet) dreams :P j.

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-17 Thread pixelfairy
You might want xen and run openbsd as dom0 On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:01 PM, bofh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Mikael wrote: > >> I know the whole virtualization thing is crap from a strict security point >> of view but I like to take the risk, and OBSD cer

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-15 Thread bofh
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Mikael wrote: > I know the whole virtualization thing is crap from a strict security point > of view but I like to take the risk, and OBSD certainly is a better > codebase to do this host stuff in than other systems. Probably some people > would

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-15 Thread Mikael
If someone wanted to hack together a Bhyve OBSD port would be complete awesomeness. Even as a custom patch only for the stupid guys like me who love this unsafe virtualization stuff that so many use now. It would be awesome. I know the whole virtualization thing is crap from a strict security

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-15 Thread Jiri B
tainers for OpenBSD, hahaha. But reality is, nothing such that exists now. OpenBSD is primarily an "UNIX" OS, not virtualization host or embedded OS. First get the project focus before doing strong conclusions ("what a poor virtualization support" as an example...). j.

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
current/man8/sparc64/ldomctl.8?query=ldomctl&arch=sparc64 > What FS supported by OpenBSD? UFS? ZFS? UFS/UFS2. The ZFS license/patent situation makes it a non-starter for inclusion in OpenBSD. > And in conclusion: chroot and qemu for virtualization on OpenBSD? > sounds really poor

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-15 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
d in conclusion: chroot and qemu for virtualization on OpenBSD? sounds really poor... :( On 14 March 2015 at 20:39, Gene wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Jiri B wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: >> >

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-14 Thread Gene
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Jiri B wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: > > So question is: > > What Virtualization solutions OpenBSD support? > > OpenBSD supports SPARC ldomains, but you have to have > SPARC hw :P >

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-14 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
I want to setup Virtualization server. Currently I am using xen with Linux + ZFS... And it uses files instead of ZFS volumes... Since I'm new to OpenBSD I won't tell you what OpenBSD supports for virtualization but what works for me, hope this helps. Keep in mind my lack of exp

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-14 Thread Jiri B
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: > So question is: > What Virtualization solutions OpenBSD support? OpenBSD supports SPARC ldomains, but you have to have SPARC hw :P There is support of some virtio devices (vio, vioblock, "broken" vios

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-14 Thread Steven McDonald
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:44:47 +0200 Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: > So question is: > What Virtualization solutions OpenBSD support? Anything that runs as a userspace process in non-accelerated mode and has been ported to OpenBSD (QEMU, for example). There is no support for Xen, nor ha

OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-14 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
Hi team, I have tried to search something on the web then OBSD mailing lists... No confident answer was found. I want to setup Virtualization server. Currently I am using xen with Linux + ZFS... And it uses files instead of ZFS volumes... So question is: What Virtualization solutions OpenBSD

Re: virtualization

2013-01-05 Thread Aaron Mason
albox does not cost any money, I stick with it. >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Friedrich Locke >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Hi folks! >> >> >> >> I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtuali

Re: virtualization

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Erdely
oney, I stick with it. > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Friedrich Locke > > wrote: > > > >> Hi folks! > >> > >> I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtualization > >> software in order to have two virtual machine

Re: virtualization

2013-01-05 Thread Aaron Mason
s > not work. > > I tried VMWare Workstation and it works great too for OpenBSD, but since > Virtualbox does not cost any money, I stick with it. > > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Friedrich Locke > wrote: > >> Hi folks! >> >> I have a windows desktop an

Re: virtualization

2013-01-05 Thread Alan Cheng
enBSD, but since Virtualbox does not cost any money, I stick with it. On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Hi folks! > > I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtualization > software in order to have two virtual machine. I pretend to install Ope

Re: virtualization

2013-01-04 Thread Yusof Khalid - FreeBSD / OpenBSD
Hi, Virtualbox is the best from my experience.Just make sure your processor have VT enable for virtualization. Some old proc can't do virtualization On 5 Jan 2013 07:44, "Friedrich Locke" wrote:

Re: virtualization

2013-01-04 Thread Olivier Calzi
t; > I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtualization > software in order to have two virtual machine. I pretend to install OpenBSD > on both of them. > > Which virtualization solution would be the best one for OpenBSD to run on ? > > Thanks. > > -- Cordialement Olivier Calzi

Re: virtualization

2013-01-04 Thread Jason Barbier
On 1/4/2013 3:42 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: Hi folks! I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtualization software in order to have two virtual machine. I pretend to install OpenBSD on both of them. Which virtualization solution would be the best one for OpenBSD to run on

virtualization

2013-01-04 Thread Friedrich Locke
Hi folks! I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtualization software in order to have two virtual machine. I pretend to install OpenBSD on both of them. Which virtualization solution would be the best one for OpenBSD to run on ? Thanks.

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-20 Thread Henning Brauer
* Hassan Monfared [2011-09-19 08:17]: > why don't you try xen ? > The XenB. hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for > virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for > virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architecture

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Michel Blais wrote: > The're also proxmox ve that is really nice for virtualisation. > > http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page As it's based on OpenVZ and KVM it doesn't seems to be answer on question in subject.

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-20 Thread Michel Blais
The're also proxmox ve that is really nice for virtualisation. http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Corey
On 09/19/2011 09:15 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > > > On 20 September 2011 14:08, Corey > wrote: > > On 09/19/2011 08:04 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > > If you are Going to use linux as your dom0 I STRONGLY > recommend against > virtual

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
On 20 September 2011 14:08, Corey wrote: > On 09/19/2011 08:04 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > >> If you are Going to use linux as your dom0 I STRONGLY recommend against >> virtual box. Vb is the retarded stillborn twin of kvm. Kvm is twice as >> fast >> in mainline and not controlled by oracle

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Corey
On 09/19/2011 08:04 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: If you are Going to use linux as your dom0 I STRONGLY recommend against virtual box. Vb is the retarded stillborn twin of kvm. Kvm is twice as fast in mainline and not controlled by oracle sent from android handset. Please mind the brevity. On S

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > If you are Going to use linux as your dom0 I STRONGLY recommend against > virtual box. Vb is the retarded stillborn twin of kvm. Kvm is twice as fast > in mainline and not controlled by oracle > For production use, Xen and orchestrate seems to be g

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
ot; wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:17 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote: >> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20917/are-there-any-virtualization-solutions-for-openbsd-important-no-package-from >> >> I'm searching for Virtualization solutions: >> >> OpenBSD: host &

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread ropers
Hassan Monfared wrote: > subject to correction of a lock-up bug in OpenBSD to support Xen Hosting On 19 September 2011 09:20, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > And eg. this one is not so hard > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=dom0&q=b Has anyone (qualified) ever taken an interest in the bug Chri

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:17 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20917/are-there-any-virtualization-solutions-for-openbsd-important-no-package-from > > I'm searching for Virtualization solutions: > > OpenBSD: host > CentOS: guest > &g

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
19, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Tomas Bodzar >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Hassan Monfared >>> wrote: >>> > why don't you try xen ? >>> >>> Maybe because he asked for solution with OpenBSD as a host and nothing >>&

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
nd nothing >> from packages/ports? ;-) >> >> > The XenB. hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for >> > virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for >> > virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Hassan Monfared
lution with OpenBSD as a host and nothing >> from packages/ports? ;-) >> >> > The XenB. hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for >> > virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for >> > virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64,

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-19 Thread Hassan Monfared
> wrote: > > why don't you try xen ? > > Maybe because he asked for solution with OpenBSD as a host and nothing > from packages/ports? ;-) > > > The XenB. hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for > > virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient,

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-18 Thread Hassan Monfared
why don't you try xen ? The XenB. hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. visit Xen at www.Xen.org On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-18 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM, lancebaynes87 wrote: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20917/are-there-any-virtualization-solutions-for-openbsd-important-no-package-from > > I'm searching for Virtualization solutions: > > OpenBSD: host > CentOS: guest > &g

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

2011-09-17 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
> What are my solutions? I'm searching for one that doesn't use packages from > ports. Are there any? There are none. Consider using qemu from ports, or better, don't use virtualization.

Re: firewall virtualization using tagging?

2011-05-23 Thread Martin Hein
On Tue, 24 May 2011 12:33:55 +1200 Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > stacking (802.11ah/QinQ) is ok for most situations, however it would > be nice to have a SAP style construct (service access port), which > essentially is a logical customer interface - most switch/router > vendors have such as thing.

Re: firewall virtualization using tagging?

2011-05-23 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
stacking (802.11ah/QinQ) is ok for most situations, however it would be nice to have a SAP style construct (service access port), which essentially is a logical customer interface - most switch/router vendors have such as thing. On 24 May 2011 11:56, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-05-23, Oes

Re: firewall virtualization using tagging?

2011-05-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-05-23, Oeschger Patrick wrote: > the first experiments were using routing domain coupled with different vlans > but vlans are limited to 4k+ no, you can stack them. svlan(4) does QinQ with the 802.1AD standard ethertype (0x88a8).

firewall virtualization using tagging?

2011-05-23 Thread Oeschger Patrick
a few thoughts about firewall virtualization... first of all: firewall virtualization is one of the topics i just can't resist ;D it begun when i discovered the VRF capabilities in openbsd (guess since 4.7 or so...) the first experiments were using routing domain coupled with different vlan

Re: what kind of virtualization is available on OpenBSD?

2010-12-29 Thread Jiri B.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 07:48:24AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: >If i'm using OpenBSD as Desktop OS, what kind of virtualization solutions do i >have? > >Can anyone point to some howtos/docs regarding it? [for a beginner :\] You forgot to make your homework - check /usr/ports/emulators. jirib

what kind of virtualization is available on OpenBSD?

2010-12-29 Thread S Mathias
If i'm using OpenBSD as Desktop OS, what kind of virtualization solutions do i have? Can anyone point to some howtos/docs regarding it? [for a beginner :\]

Re: OpenBSD virtualization

2010-04-04 Thread Olivier Cherrier
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:47:07PM +0530, reachta...@hotmail.com wrote: > > I am very much new to OpenBSD. I have two Sun UltraSparcT2( Niagara2) > servers. > > I have install OpenBSD4.6 on that. But my intention is to install KVM/XEN > on > > those box. > > > > Can anyone help me to do so > >

Re: OpenBSD virtualization

2010-04-01 Thread Stas Miasnikou
Digital Edge: I am very much new to OpenBSD. I have two Sun UltraSparcT2( Niagara2) servers. I have install OpenBSD4.6 on that. But my intention is to install KVM/XEN on those box. Can anyone help me to do so Oh, not again... Stas

Re: OpenBSD virtualization

2010-04-01 Thread Jiri B.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:15:20 +0530 Digital Edge wrote: > Dear List, > > I am very much new to OpenBSD. I have two Sun UltraSparcT2( Niagara2) > servers. I have install OpenBSD4.6 on that. But my intention is to > install KVM/XEN on those box. > > Can anyone help me to do so Not Xen at all b

Re: OpenBSD virtualization

2010-04-01 Thread Digital Edge
> From: reachta...@hotmail.com > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: OpenBSD virtualization > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:15:20 +0530 > > Dear List, > > I am very much new to OpenBSD. I have two Sun UltraSparcT2( Niagara2) servers. > I have install OpenBSD4.6 on that. But my

Re: OpenBSD virtualization

2010-04-01 Thread Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina
Err... do the homework first. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Digital Edge wrote: > Dear List, > > I am very much new to OpenBSD. I have two Sun UltraSparcT2( Niagara2) > servers. > I have install OpenBSD4.6 on that. But my intention is to install KVM/XEN > on > those box. > > Can anyone help me

OpenBSD virtualization

2010-04-01 Thread Digital Edge
Dear List, I am very much new to OpenBSD. I have two Sun UltraSparcT2( Niagara2) servers. I have install OpenBSD4.6 on that. But my intention is to install KVM/XEN on those box. Can anyone help me to do so Thanks, dE _ The wor

Re: wich virtualization does obsd support?

2010-02-10 Thread Tomas Bodzar
PM, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > i mean: > > i use ubuntu 9.10 [sorry:D] with virtualbox on my notebook. > > when i need to test/find out something, or write a script, etc, I just > create a guest in vbox, make snapshots, etc [e.g.: for testing configs] > > q: what virtual

wich virtualization does obsd support?

2010-02-10 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
i mean: i use ubuntu 9.10 [sorry:D] with virtualbox on my notebook. when i need to test/find out something, or write a script, etc, I just create a guest in vbox, make snapshots, etc [e.g.: for testing configs] q: what virtualization is available on amd64 obsd? xen? - no, obsd can't be dom0

OT: Additional informations to "Bad performance of dd(1) with small bs option" and "OpenBSD under virtualization"

2010-01-15 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Hi all, I just read and test this paper http://www.laurustech.com/Learning%20DTrace_Part4.pdf where they compare cp(1) and dd(1) and why plain dd(1) is so slow. With similar scripts you can even check how bad performance has some VM machine when you compare it with real machine. Eg. I had 400 writ

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-20 Thread Guido Tschakert
Markus Hennecke schrieb: > Guido Tschakert wrote: >> the question is: do you use the vmware-tools from server 2.0 and if >> you do so, how did you manage it? > > No, we are running server 1.0.8 for our OpenBSD vmware installations. We > have some laptops with our Windows client software that needs

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread SJP Lists
2009/3/20 Markus Hennecke : > Guido Tschakert wrote: >> >> the question is: do you use the vmware-tools from server 2.0 and if you do >> so, how did you manage it? > > No, we are running server 1.0.8 for our OpenBSD vmware installations. We > have some laptops with our Windows client software that

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Markus Hennecke
Guido Tschakert wrote: the question is: do you use the vmware-tools from server 2.0 and if you do so, how did you manage it? No, we are running server 1.0.8 for our OpenBSD vmware installations. We have some laptops with our Windows client software that needs fast access to a database on an O

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread dtalk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Donahue wrote: I don't have the VM image around any more, but I don't remember any unexpected performance problems. The VM was acting as a firewall/DHCP server ... The problem was disk i/o, so you might not perceive the issue on a firewall.

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Tim Donahue
dt...@drizzle.com wrote: > Tim Donahue wrote: > >> I run OpenBSD under VMware Server and ESXi. (Both are free) It is >> fairly stable and the performance isn't bad. I would recommend you use >> the "Other Linux (64-bit)" profile so you can get access to the e1000 >> virtual NIC. > > In an earli

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread dtalk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Donahue wrote: I run OpenBSD under VMware Server and ESXi. (Both are free) It is fairly stable and the performance isn't bad. I would recommend you use the "Other Linux (64-bit)" profile so you can get access to the e1000 virtual NIC. In an

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Tim Donahue
Mike wrote: >> Installing 60 physical servers to give the students something to play >> with is not fun :( >> > > > I am interested in a simalir situation, how did you achieve the 60 VM's? > > BTW, how many VM's can I setup using a fast/supped up laptop in a > @home environment which would be so

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread dtalk
topic. The opposition to virtualization technology in some quarters here is curious, though understandable and perhaps laudable among developers and users of an environment for which stability is paramount. I won't go as far as to say some of you live under a rock, but I will call it cu

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Tim Donahue
sonjaya wrote: > ye that is my point , if i using obsd as guest os will be reduce > benefit of OBSD . > > so now only two candidate > - XEN > - qemu > - vmware server ( price is high 0 > - virtualbox SUN > > may be i will try taht candidate . > > Thank's for all sharing :) > I run OpenBSD und

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:12:51AM -0700, Mike wrote: > > BTW, how many VM's can I setup using a fast/supped up laptop in a > @home environment which would be something that one would setup in > work environment. Certainly no more than 37. Maybe 38 if you lower the display settings. As few as 32

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Mike
> Installing 60 physical servers to give the students something to play > with is not fun :( > I am interested in a simalir situation, how did you achieve the 60 VM's? BTW, how many VM's can I setup using a fast/supped up laptop in a @home environment which would be something that one would setu

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Guido Tschakert
Markus Hennecke wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Markus Hennecke wrote: Laurens Vets wrote: Markus Hennecke wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Laurens Vets wrote: Laurens Vets wrote: Doesn't work for me. Vmware-guestd doesn't want to run and the message "Abort trap" is printed... Btw, this is on Ope

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Julian Leyh
Toni Mueller schrieb: but it still increases the cost considerably: With virtualization, it suffices to give a thin client to each student, or maybe even less if not all 60 students are expected to work simultanously. With physical machines, this still creates much more hassle, and cost. Also

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 18.03.2009 at 23:10:01 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > Machines that are exposed to the internet run on real hardware, > for security reasons. I don't trust the underlying virtualization > software to be secure/stable/good. I generally second that, but have a nagging

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Toni Mueller
t; have to take place only on one server, probably not much more as > restoring the exported filesystems or boot images from a previous backup. but it still increases the cost considerably: With virtualization, it suffices to give a thin client to each student, or maybe even less if not all

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Farber
We run OpenBSD 4.4 + openvpn package at VMWare ESX 3.5 at work - without any problems. With VMWare Workstation it works too (I'm using OpenBSD 4.3 and 4.4 at my notebook)

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 15:44, Wed 18 Mar 09, sonjaya wrote: > what virtualization you use (vmware , openvz , etc )? KVM > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Michiel van Baak > wrote: > > On 15:13, Wed 18 Mar 09, sonjaya wrote: > >> Hi... > >> > >> My boss ask h

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Julian Leyh
Pehr Svderman schrieb: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-03-18, sonjaya wrote: ps: i'm so sory to ask this because Efficiency and reduce IT cost . how does one increase efficiency and reduce IT costs by making things more complicated Let me put it this way: I don't mind creating 60 virtual in

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Markus Hennecke
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Markus Hennecke wrote: Laurens Vets wrote: Markus Hennecke wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Laurens Vets wrote: Laurens Vets wrote: Doesn't work for me. Vmware-guestd doesn't want to run and the message "Abort trap" is printed... Btw, this is on OpenBSD 4.4 i386 and VMware

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Yuri Spirin
Hello, misc. sonjaya wrote: > anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( > openvz , vmware etc ) , may be want share to me ? > So obsd become guest OS ? > I have 4.2-GENERIC that runs happy under openSUSE 11.0/VMware Server 2.0. This is internal co

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 18.03.2009 um 09:13 schrieb sonjaya: Hi... My boss ask how to move current obsd server to virtualiaztion ( such as openvz, vmare , etc ) . anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( openvz , vmware etc ) , may be want share to me ? So obsd become guest OS ? I

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Imre Oolberg
network adapters to the HVM with PCI-passthru to make my problems go but got an impression that on my hardware it is not possible since it doesnt have IOMMU. (Actually passthru works for PV domU's). I would be very thankful if you could share a bit more of your experience and i could g

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Guido Tschakert
>>>>>>> My boss ask how to move current obsd server to virtualiaztion ( such >>>>>>> as openvz, vmare , etc ) . >>>>>>> anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( >>>>>>> openvz , vmware

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Guido Tschakert
>>>>>>> My boss ask how to move current obsd server to virtualiaztion ( such >>>>>>> as openvz, vmare , etc ) . >>>>>>> anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( >>>>>>> openvz , vmware

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Markus Hennecke
Laurens Vets wrote: Markus Hennecke wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Laurens Vets wrote: Laurens Vets wrote: Doesn't work for me. Vmware-guestd doesn't want to run and the message "Abort trap" is printed... Btw, this is on OpenBSD 4.4 i386 and VMware Server 2.0 This works no longer with VMWare

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Linus Swälas
moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( openvz , vmware etc ) , may be want share to me ? So obsd become guest OS ? ps: i'm so sory to ask this because Efficiency and reduce IT cost . thank's Works great for me under VMware. / L How are you shutting down the OpenBSD gues

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Linus Swälas
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:26:19 +0100, Laurens Vets wrote: My boss ask how to move current obsd server to virtualiaztion ( such as openvz, vmare , etc ) . anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( openvz , vmware etc ) , may be want share to me ? So obsd become guest

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Pehr Söderman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-03-18, sonjaya wrote: >> ps: i'm so sory to ask this because Efficiency and reduce IT >> cost . > > how does one increase efficiency and reduce IT costs by making > things more complicated Let me put it this way: I

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