Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hi, * Mihai Popescu wrote: > > It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host. > > Very well, it will match the confidence of running OpenBSD on a virtual > machine. I have all my public OpenBSD instances running as virtual machines at IONOS (ionos.com). Their

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread obsdml
Sorry to hear about your issues. Vultr has been top notch in my experience. I have a couple of Vultr hosted nodes in different data centers that have been running OpenBSD, they’ve been online for four years now (with downtime for logging into the console to activate FDE during reboots from

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread
Hi everyone, Another good alternative is "transip .eu" They use KVM as a virtualization platform and i think there was no major issue about OpenBSD since version 6.0. (at least for me).

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread Sven Wolf
I also can recommend openbsd.amsterdam :) My OpenBSD VM at netcup.de (KVM) also runs without any issues for over year On 4/18/22 00:00, Alexis wrote: Mihai Popescu writes: It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host. Very well, it will match the confidence of running

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread David Anthony
Ramnode allows the easy use of OpenBSD on their VMs. You can bring your own ISO file. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 18, 2022, at 3:25 AM, Sean Kamath wrote: > > I’ve been running a few Vultr instances since. . . before 2018. > Periodically, something comes up. I think in the

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread Sean Kamath
I’ve been running a few Vultr instances since. . . before 2018. Periodically, something comes up. I think in the 5-ish years, I’ve had 2 issues. Raise an issue with their support team and state what happened. Both times, they responded with some information and that they needed to change

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-17 Thread Hakan E. Duran
For whatever it is worth, I have been using an OpenBSD VM with Vultr since 6.7 edition and so far didn't have issues. I may have been a lucky one that landed on their good side, but I am quite happy with them so far. Hakan On 22/04/17 04:00PM, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > > > &

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-17 Thread latincom
> > Mihai Popescu writes: > >>> It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host. >> >> Very well, it will match the confidence of running OpenBSD on a >> virtual machine. > > Not sure exactly what you mean by that, but i can say i

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-17 Thread Alexis
Mihai Popescu writes: It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host. Very well, it will match the confidence of running OpenBSD on a virtual machine. Not sure exactly what you mean by that, but i can say i'm very happy with my OpenBSD VM provided by openbsd.amst

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
> It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host. Very well, it will match the confidence of running OpenBSD on a virtual machine.

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-15 Thread Philipp Buehler
Am 16.04.2022 01:31 schrieb open...@maniaphobic.org: the representative told me, "OpenBSD has very special configurations that are required on our end to work properly with our virtualization software". It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host. Crucial question

Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-15 Thread openbsd
Hi all, I'm posting this for the benefit of OpenBSD community members hosting virtual machines on Vultr. I encountered the same failure that Claus A. reported in December: cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS) https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg180415.html

Re: cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS)

2021-12-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
Mike Larkin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 06:18:55PM +, Claus Assmann wrote: > > Just in case someone is wondering: vultr moved the VM to a different > > server, the system is up and running again. > > BTW: I guess I can ignore this: > > fd0 at fd

Re: cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS)

2021-12-04 Thread Mike Larkin
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 06:18:55PM +, Claus Assmann wrote: > Just in case someone is wondering: vultr moved the VM to a different > server, the system is up and running again. > BTW: I guess I can ignore this: > fd0 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown > > > OpenBSD 6.9 (GENE

Re: cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS)

2021-12-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
Philip Guenther wrote: > They have your virtualization guest configured in a way that doesn't match > any real hardware: it has a family-model-stepping combination that matches > the Skylake line, real hardware of which all have the cflushopt extension, > but the host is making the guest trap whe

Re: cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS)

2021-12-04 Thread Claus Assmann
Just in case someone is wondering: vultr moved the VM to a different server, the system is up and running again. BTW: I guess I can ignore this: fd0 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown OpenBSD 6.9 (GENERIC) #464: Mon Apr 19 10:28:56 MDT 2021 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64

Re: cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS)

2021-12-04 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 4:32 AM Claus Assmann wrote: > My vultr OpenBSD 6.8 instance crashed and when it tried to reboot it > failed at: > > root on sd0a (...) > WARNING: / was not properly unmounted > kernel: privileged instruction fault trap, code=0 > mds_handler_s

cd*.iso reboot loop (vultr, Skylake AVX MDS)

2021-12-04 Thread Claus Assmann
My vultr OpenBSD 6.8 instance crashed and when it tried to reboot it failed at: root on sd0a (...) WARNING: / was not properly unmounted kernel: privileged instruction fault trap, code=0 mds_handler_skl_avx+0x33: clflush __ALIGN_SIZE+0x500(%rid,%rax,8) I tried to boot from cd{68,69,70}iso but

Re: vultr

2019-01-16 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 09:47:52PM +, Étienne wrote: > On 06/01/2019 16:38, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > > Use their default OpenBSD install. They have a special config on the > > host for OpenBSD and the clock drifting problem. > > > Can you tell us more? Do you mean they chan

Re: vultr

2019-01-15 Thread Étienne
On 06/01/2019 16:38, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: Use their default OpenBSD install. They have a special config on the host for OpenBSD and the clock drifting problem. Can you tell us more? Do you mean they change a setting on the host machine just for the OpenBSD guest, that they wou

Re: vultr

2019-01-07 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
> > boot off that, reinstall exactly as you want it.  The Vultr console > > works great on OpenBSD chrome and firefox browsers.  Use DHCP for > > network.  Done. > > This is exactly what I have done, and it works very well.  I just wanted > to add that I included "inet6 aut

Re: vultr

2019-01-07 Thread lists+misc
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:44:03AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > Use their install ONLY to put your own bsd.rd in root (everyone seems to > obsess over loading an ISO. Who cares? Just use a -current bsd.rd!), > boot off that, reinstall exactly as you want it. The Vultr console > wo

Re: vultr

2019-01-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/5/19 5:22 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. > They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I > attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all > whacked out and I

Re: vultr

2019-01-06 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 05:43:36PM -0600, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 02:40:43PM -0800, Misc User wrote: > > On 1/5/2019 2:22 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > > > I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. > >

Re: vultr

2019-01-05 Thread edgar
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 02:40:43PM -0800, Misc User wrote: > On 1/5/2019 2:22 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > > I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. > > They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I > > attempte

Re: vultr

2019-01-05 Thread Antonino Sidoti
Hi, I have two systems with Vultr (Sydney and Tokyo) and find them to be fine. True the default install using the automated Vultr 6.3/6.4 install will create two partitions and swap. I have installed one of my OpenBSD system using a custom install ISO OpenBSD 6.4 and with that I can do it

Re: vultr

2019-01-05 Thread Donald Cooley
On January 5, 2019 4:22:23 PM CST, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: >I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. >They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I >attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all >whack

Re: vultr

2019-01-05 Thread Misc User
On 1/5/2019 2:22 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all whacked out and I had to start over

vultr

2019-01-05 Thread edgar
I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all whacked out and I had to start over with a fresh install. Thanks, Edgar

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-12 Thread Sacha El Masry
> Without digging them up I did a quick google on openbsd issues vultr. > It pulled some things I saw before with 6.2 and timing, as well as > issues with the base image, and other ones talking about a setting in > KVM that was causing issues on certain servers. I use Vultr, happily,

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-10 Thread Merv Hammer
> On 8. Sep 2018, at 19:55, Ken M wrote: ... > 1. Is it still current information that it would be better to use my own > image/install/iso for openbsd on Vultr? > I’ve run general purpose OpenBSD boxes on Vultr for several years, mostly for development while travelling and wi

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread Mika
My personal experience with vultr is good. At the moment I'm using my own 6.2 iso. Everything runs smoothly. Regarding network performance I noticed no problems till today but it is just a small mail server. On 9 September 2018 10:05:16 BST, Étienne > > On 8 September 2018 19:55:16

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread Zbyszek Żółkiewski
> Wiadomość napisana przez Ken M w dniu 08.09.2018, o godz. > 20:55: > > 2. Is vultr a good place to host an openbsd box? If not interested in hearing > alternatives. my own experience: 1) Vultr gave me very bad support experience. If you restore from snapshot you have

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread Étienne
On 8 September 2018 19:55:16 BST, Ken M > My questions are: > >1. Is it still current information that it would be better to use my >own >image/install/iso for openbsd on Vultr? I just like to manage the disk my own way, so I don't use their install process. But they p

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread flipchan
I think vultr is setting a great example that many hosting providers should follow, I mean I bet 65% run kvm and then it is possible to run openbsd , but I think many providers doesn't put in the energy to do it / configure a template for it On September 9, 2018 12:26:29 AM UTC, Ken M

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Ken M
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 08:36:01PM +0100, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: > On 08/09/2018 19:55, Ken M wrote: > What kind of issues? I'm curious. Can you pls provide a reference? > Without digging them up I did a quick google on openbsd issues vultr. It pulled some things I saw befor

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread edgar
On Sep 8, 2018 4:35 PM, flipchan wrote: > > U have to tell em to open port 25 > > On September 8, 2018 6:55:16 PM UTC, Ken M wrote: > >This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd > >on vultr > >I have seen some comments here and there

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread flipchan
U have to tell em to open port 25 On September 8, 2018 6:55:16 PM UTC, Ken M wrote: >This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd >on vultr >I have seen some comments here and there about issues with the default >image on >vultr and to use a custom image

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:55:16PM +, Ken M wrote: > 2. Is vultr a good place to host an openbsd box? If not interested in hearing > alternatives. > I have been using baremetal servers. They are cheap (please don't go too cheap!) You do need to make sure that they will allo

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Chris Narkiewicz
On 08/09/2018 19:55, Ken M wrote: I have seen some comments here and there about issues with the default image What kind of issues? I'm curious. Can you pls provide a reference?

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Pedro Tender
I have an instance on ramnode. No problems since 6.0 On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 20:18, Tony Boston wrote: > On 08.09.18 02:55, Ken M wrote: > > This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd > on vultr > > I have seen some comments here and there abo

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Tom Smyth
; On Sep 8, 2018 at 12:55,wrote: >> >> >> This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd on >> vultr I have seen some comments here and there about issues with the default >> image on vultr and to use a custom image or iso instead of what

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Tracey Emery
I'm very happy with https://openbsd.amsterdam/. Plus, they donate back. Tracey > > On Sep 8, 2018 at 12:55,wrote: > > > This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd on > vultr I have seen some comments here

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Tony Boston
On 08.09.18 02:55, Ken M wrote: > This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd on > vultr > I have seen some comments here and there about issues with the default image > on > vultr and to use a custom image or iso instead of what they have. Some of

Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Ken M
This is related to my mail server thread, but in googling about openbsd on vultr I have seen some comments here and there about issues with the default image on vultr and to use a custom image or iso instead of what they have. Some of these seem dated and related to older versions of openbsd. My

Re: Vultr support for OpenBSD

2017-01-16 Thread Murk Fletcher
Absolutely. Have been using OpenBSD as a custom ISO with Vultr for quite some time now. I'm just pleased by the fact that it's now "officially supported" as this, for better or worse, will bring in more users to OpenBSD. Hopefully this will be a big smack in the face to

Re: Vultr support for OpenBSD

2017-01-15 Thread Murk Fletcher
About time -- thanks for being the bearer of good news. -- Murk On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:22 PM, Troy Frericks wrote: > Vultr now has direct support for #*OpenBSD* > <https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenBSD?src=hash>. Launch your OpenBSD > environment easily from our deplo

Vultr support for OpenBSD

2017-01-13 Thread Troy Frericks
Vultr now has direct support for #*OpenBSD* <https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenBSD?src=hash>. Launch your OpenBSD environment easily from our deploy panel at http://Vultr.com <https://t.co/d8xVU3LP1Z> ! #*Cloud* <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cloud?src=hash> https://twitter.com/Vultr