On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:21:47PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote:
> On 14-12-18 12:57 PM, Mike Larkin wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote:
> >>On 14-12-18 12:06 PM, andrew fabbro wrote:
> >>>In short - the list of VPS providers who can support OpenBSD is actually
> >>>very big.
> >>I have to take issue with that statement...
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>What do you do if one day you're only getting 100kbps throughput?
> >>Call support, who - as soon as they learn you're running OpenBSD -
> >>tell you "that's not supported, sorry" and hang up.  When ACPI goes
> >>haywire (normal under KVM so far)... same thing.  Not naming names,
> >And your bug report for this is ... where?
> >
> >-ml
> The last time I filed a bugreport on OpenBSD in a virtualized
> environment, I got flamed for not running it on real hardware.
> Haven't bothered since.  However, that was a few years ago, and the
> ACPI shutdown issue is a big enough PITA that I'll file again soon.
> Difficult to debug, though, since the all I/O except wscons just
> freezes upon receipt of the ACPI signal.
> 
> -- 
> -Adam Thompson
>  [email protected]
> 

It would be useful to at least see if this is a real ACPI issue or if this
some problem KVM is causing. The former will elicit more sympathy than
the latter.

-ml

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