On 6. oktober 2013 at 1:15 PM, "Manolis Tzanidakis" <mtzanida...@gmail.com> wrote: > >First, upgrade to STABLE to avoid potential kernel panics. Check >patch 007 in http://openbsd.org/errata53.html for more info. M:Tier >offers pre-built patches and packages, if you want to avoid compiling. >Check https://stable.mtier.org/ . > >To be able to switch back and forth from wd/em to vioblk/vio: >- make sure you use DUID in fstab. disklabel(8) for more info. >- copy /etc/hostname.em0 to /etc/hostname.vio0 . >- ask your vps provider to enable virtio for disk and net.
My VPS provider says it will take them a couple of weeks to enable virtio. Does it really take that long? They also say they have virtio enabled for FreeBSD, meaning they were aware that their OpenBSD offering was going to be below par, but chose to sell it to me anyway. O.D.
