On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > The list of VPS providers where OpenBSD will run, more or less correctly, > more or less all of the time, is actually very big. It will even run > correctly all of the time on a fairly large list of providers. > > However, the list of VPS providers who are willing to *support* OpenBSD is > extremely small
Yes, this is true. With the unmanaged providers, OpenBSD is no better or worse than any other OS. The provider will help if there's something broken on the hardware they manage, but "inside" your VPS, you're on your own. And unfortunately, and perhaps not surprisingly, Linux distros running on a Linux virutalization tech (KVM) generally run fine out of the box while OpenBSD requires a bit more special handling (setting vio flags, turning APIC off, etc.) and tends to reveal more bugs in KVM. Even there, often times unmanaged providers are familiar with the typical problems a Debian or Centos VPS will have and will assist, while OpenBSD is alien to them. With managed providers...there are very few who support OpenBSD. running OpenBSD - tell you "that's not supported, sorry" and hang up. When > ACPI goes haywire (normal under KVM so far)... I haven't had it go haywire per se, but sometimes have to turn it off during install, back on during regular use, and I have to turn APIC off. Oddly, the exact same settings with the exact same bsd.rd will cause a panic on one KVM and not on another.
