On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 04:15:42PM +0200, Daniel Santos wrote: > > I looking for some experience sharing from those who also run OpenBSD > inside > > KVM on Linux. > > > > I was running 5.2 and now 6.2 inside KVM on a Linux wheezy host with 3.2 > > kernel. > > > > This system was used as an all in one Zabbix monitoring server, which > > included the full stack required to run a central monitoring server: > > > > -Lighttpd > > -Zabbix Server > > -Zabbix Agent > > -Mysql Server > > -SNMP utils > > > > First it was using Zabbix 2.x then I have upgraded it to the 3.x series. > The > > zabbix server was regularily crashing or stopped logging to the DB and > > needed to be restarted. > > If not that then the db and page load was terribly slow even on LAN and I > > only had <15 clients on this server. I started moving the components off > one > > by one, at the end only the zabbix server engine left on the vm even that > > sometimes just stuck and stopped sending data to a standalone other linux > > mysql vm. Then I gave up, I recreated the whole environment with the same > > Zabbix version on an all in one Debian 9 vm and since then it runs > > flawlessly. Another issue was that I kept getting dropped packet entries > in > > my pflog on the enabled ports (seems like broken connections). > > > > Zabbix needs a fast DB which I would not run virtualised. Also the crashes > you have seen may have been fixed in the meantime (between 6.2 and 6.3 > there was an libc asr fix that made zabbix reliable for me). > > I run a few KVM OpenBSD machines (mainly network / load balancers) they > work reasonably well. > > -- > :wq Claudio > > really depends on the KVM/linux version -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do
