Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-26 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
On 10/25/07, Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you forgot to count power savings here? Theo de Raadt wrote: And when physical servers cost less than some vmware licenses Then it is even more dumb to defend such stupid practices. Some but not all. If you buy a Dell

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-26 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
On 10/26/07, Matt Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some but not all. If you buy a Dell 2950 quad and load it up with 8 Gig. You can spend $500 on an ESX 3i license and run 10 - 15 512 MB OpenBSD single processor VMs. The difference here is that you can max out the duty cycle on the box

X11 install packages?

2007-07-28 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
Noticed that the X11 install packages are no longer being built for i386 on a daily basis. Is there another tree that might have these or shold I just use the built ones from 4.1 ? Cheers.

Re: vmware: detecting real interfaces?

2007-03-03 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
On 3/2/07, Joseph C. Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Nick Holland wrote: exactly. This idea of using VMware (or similar) to host a firewall that protects the host operating system is something I find somewhere between amusing (because its silly) and scary

Re: vmware: detecting real interfaces?

2007-02-28 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
On 2/28/07, Guido Tschakert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i am forced to use windows at work and am trying to get a vmware openbsd VM to recognize the non-virtual interfaces, so as to have openbsd as the router for the windows system. this is using the free vmplayer

Re: gettext-0.14.6 broken in current?

2007-02-28 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
On 2/28/07, Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subcommander l0r3zz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I build any package that needs the latest release of gettext, gettext blows up on the final install from the built package... Somebody else also reported this to me. There's

Re: vmware: detecting real interfaces?

2007-02-28 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
On 2/28/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guido Tschakert wrote: ... Hi, yes finally you must go outside, this is done with the bridged interface. The question is (I don't have the complete answer, but a strange feeling): How secure is your windows with a network interface

Quick n Easy template system?

2007-02-28 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
All, I'm making a Vmware Virtual Appliance using OpenBSD so one can leverage goodies like pf, bgpd, ipsec, carp, etc in the VM universe. What should I use to create the few config web pages (these can be easily turned off once configuration is complete. I'd like to use something that works with

Re: vmware: detecting real interfaces?

2007-02-27 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
and can only see the pcn0 interface under the VM (which is 3.8-release, btw) after following the suggestions contained therein. any clues about getting the VM to recognize the real physical interfaces would be great. Unfortunately there is no way to get at the actual physical nics from a

gettext-0.14.6 broken in current?

2007-02-27 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
Hi all, When I build any package that needs the latest release of gettext, gettext blows up on the final install from the built package... this is current Feb 24... # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-openbsd4.1/3.3.5/specs Configured with: Thread model: single gcc version

Multiple src trees?

2006-10-20 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
Is it possible to build and maintain multiple source trees using a single platform? In otherwords, I have an OBSD build hosts that runs say a stable release (with the occasional patch) but I want to build some different kernels and userlands for different platforms. I know how to handle the

Power Management on Thinkpads (T42p) under X11

2006-09-18 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
Greetz, What do people use to do power management on their thinkpads? I've google openbsd.org and can't seem to find any tools that work on the desktop. I run Gnome and it seems that i want gnome-power, but it doesn't seem to be incuded in the pors tree. I'm mostly interested in knowing how much

Re: binutils port

2006-03-21 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
Well, I need this too, if you are trying to compile something like L4 (to use OpenBSD as a development environment for embedded systems that don't use the OpenBSD kernel) you need a separate binutils, for example, to build Kenge (An L4:pistachio development environment) you need the gnu nm and ld

Trying to Compile L4-Kenge on current

2006-03-08 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
I got it in my mind that I would use OpenBSD as my development system to do L$ (Microkernel ) work. But I'm having a problem with the binutils tools. Fisrst I needed the GNU nm utility (because the SCons environment executes an nm --radix=d varient ). Now I'm having problems with the linker. I

OT: OpenBSD on IBM/lenovo T42 or T43, Z series?

2006-02-14 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
If anyone out there is running OpenBSD 3.8 or current with X-windows on any of the above could you let me know? I've searched the archives and the laptop pages and don't see any mention of these particular models. I'd like to make sure I can run OpenBSD before I buy.

OpenBSD PF IP Fragment Remote Denial Of Service

2006-01-31 Thread Subcommander l0r3zz
This came across security focus and I haven't seen it mentioned here. THey claim 3.8 is vulnerable, anybody know anything? l0r3zz 06.4.12 CVE: CVE-2006-0381 Platform: BSD Title: OpenBSD PF IP Fragment Remote Denial Of Service Description: PF is a packet filtering package that is integrated