>> On 27 Jun 2017 10:45 am, "Stuart Henderson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 2017-06-26, Josh Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I could be wrong when I say this but the only gotcha that you will run >> into >>> with virtual box will be the guest additions. >> >> Does virtualbox still do that thing where it patches the running >> kernel when it detects OpenBSD?
Hi, Just thought I'd chime in that I've had success with OpenBSD 5.x to 6.0 running under VMware Fusion (Mac OS X version of VMware). There isn't support for guest additions with the most recent version of Fusion (8.x), but I haven't had any issues. I saw in the thread that someone was mentioning full screen support. There's no problem with that under Fusion, but you are limited to legacy style video output (ie: not a high res display). The easiest way around that is I run OpenBSD minimized and SSH in from Terminal on Mac OS X, then use the full-screen mode on OS X Terminal. If you're interested in OpenBSD in virtual machines in the cloud, I have nothing but praise for the people at RootBSD [1], which have supported OpenBSD for a while. IIRC they run OpenBSD on top of Xen, so the previous comments about security not being the same as running it natively do apply, but it's definitely an option. I believe Undeadly recently posted about partial support for Hyper-V has been committed, which also opens up the future possibly of running OpenBSD on Azure. Seems like the only holdout is AWS, but there is now official support for FreeBSD on it, so here's hoping its' more secure cousin will make it's way to Amazon. - J [1] I'm neither an employee or investor in RootBSD - just a satisfied customer
