OpenBSD and XenSource

[Stephan A. Rickauer-5]

Those of you interested in running OpenBSD as a Xen guest in
XenEnterprise might want to use this opportunity to raise their voice:

http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151525

(Please note I have no intention to discus the boon and bane of
virtualization...)

Cheers,
Stephan

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[Tico Hannan]

Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
> Those of you interested in running OpenBSD as a Xen guest in
> XenEnterprise might want to use this opportunity to raise their voice:
>
> http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151525
>  
Stephan, thanks for the notice -- I just posted my $0.02 on that board
as well. If you manage to make any progress in your efforts (or any one
else's) to run OpenBSD under Xen with any amount of usefulness, I'd be
interested to hear about it. Feel free to contact me off-list.

Cheers!
-Tico

[Vinicius Vianna-2]

tico escreveu:

> Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
>> Those of you interested in running OpenBSD as a Xen guest in
>> XenEnterprise might want to use this opportunity to raise their voice:
>>
>> http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151525
>>  
> Stephan, thanks for the notice -- I just posted my $0.02 on that board
> as well. If you manage to make any progress in your efforts (or any
> one else's) to run OpenBSD under Xen with any amount of usefulness,
> I'd be interested to hear about it. Feel free to contact me off-list.
>
> Cheers!
> -Tico

Don't know if it fits your project, but have you tried KVM? Read at
least Ubuntu is moving to it since some issues with licenses and code
with Xen, don't know in depth what was.
I have some OpenBSD's installed in KVM with no issues using the e1000
emulated nic (em0 in OpenBSD) for some network test setups.

HTH,
DS

[Dongsheng Song]

Yes, I running OpenBSD amd64 in Debian 5.0(lenny) kvm box for OpenBSD
Translation
Status[1] at lease one month, it's fine!

[1] http://repo.e2echina.com/status/

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Dongsheng Song

2008/12/3 Vinicius Vianna <ds@...>:

> tico escreveu:
>>
>> Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
>>>
>>> Those of you interested in running OpenBSD as a Xen guest in
>>> XenEnterprise might want to use this opportunity to raise their voice:
>>>
>>> http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151525
>>>
>>
>> Stephan, thanks for the notice -- I just posted my $0.02 on that board as
>> well. If you manage to make any progress in your efforts (or any one else's)
>> to run OpenBSD under Xen with any amount of usefulness, I'd be interested to
>> hear about it. Feel free to contact me off-list.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> -Tico
>
> Don't know if it fits your project, but have you tried KVM? Read at least
> Ubuntu is moving to it since some issues with licenses and code with Xen,
> don't know in depth what was.
> I have some OpenBSD's installed in KVM with no issues using the e1000
> emulated nic (em0 in OpenBSD) for some network test setups.
>
> HTH,
> DS

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song@...> wrote:
> Yes, I running OpenBSD amd64 in Debian 5.0(lenny) kvm box for OpenBSD
> Translation
> Status[1] at lease one month, it's fine!

For me, OpenBSD 4.4 on KVM/HVM in 32-bit mode is painful: I keep
getting a watchdog message from the OpenBSD kernel related to the NIC
that causes any ongoing TCP transfer from halt for a few seconds.

Have you seen this?

>
> [1] http://repo.e2echina.com/status/
>
> ---
> Dongsheng Song
>
> 2008/12/3 Vinicius Vianna <ds@...>:
>> tico escreveu:
>>>
>>> Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Those of you interested in running OpenBSD as a Xen guest in
>>>> XenEnterprise might want to use this opportunity to raise their voice:
>>>>
>>>> http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151525
>>>>
>>>
>>> Stephan, thanks for the notice -- I just posted my $0.02 on that board as
>>> well. If you manage to make any progress in your efforts (or any one else's)
>>> to run OpenBSD under Xen with any amount of usefulness, I'd be interested to
>>> hear about it. Feel free to contact me off-list.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> -Tico
>>
>> Don't know if it fits your project, but have you tried KVM? Read at least
>> Ubuntu is moving to it since some issues with licenses and code with Xen,
>> don't know in depth what was.
>> I have some OpenBSD's installed in KVM with no issues using the e1000
>> emulated nic (em0 in OpenBSD) for some network test setups.
>>
>> HTH,
>> DS
>
>

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[Dongsheng Song]

Yes, This happend for default rtl8139 nics, you can use e1000 nics
instead rtl8139.

2008/12/3 Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@...>:

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song@...> wrote:
>> Yes, I running OpenBSD amd64 in Debian 5.0(lenny) kvm box for OpenBSD
>> Translation
>> Status[1] at lease one month, it's fine!
>
> For me, OpenBSD 4.4 on KVM/HVM in 32-bit mode is painful: I keep
> getting a watchdog message from the OpenBSD kernel related to the NIC
> that causes any ongoing TCP transfer from halt for a few seconds.
>
> Have you seen this?