Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-21 Thread Jiri B
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:04:37PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:13:51PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I am often unable to properly shutdown OpenBSD VMs, disks hang. Using virtio or not does not change that. I did not look into it very deeply yet so ... But I

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-21 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:57:32AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: please put info about your testing public. I suppose more people would be interested. I certainly will. I will write everything I find up in an article. Thank you. Bryan

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-21 Thread Loïc BLOT
Hi Antoine. I also have a hang problem when i use a cold stop on libvirt. No problem on VMWare ESX when i click on the shutdown button. On libvirt, when i click on this button the VM hang and then i need to kill the VM. (Archlinux kernel 3.11, but the problem was also present before. OpenBSD 5.3

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-21 Thread Jiri B
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 09:29:41PM +0200, Loïc BLOT wrote: Hi Antoine. I also have a hang problem when i use a cold stop on libvirt. No problem on VMWare ESX when i click on the shutdown button. On libvirt, when i click on this button the VM hang and then i need to kill the VM.

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-21 Thread mia
On 10/08/13 21:16, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud hosting provider? Digital Ocean looks nice but they don't yet offer OpenBSD (https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/3232571-support-bsd-os-). There's ARP

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-20 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:45:37PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I personally use SmartOS and while it is an awesome system, OpenBSD does not always behave perfectly well under Solaris KVM. I've had several vdisk related issues. In my experience, Linux KVM is a better container for our OS.

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-20 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:45:37PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I personally use SmartOS and while it is an awesome system, OpenBSD does not always behave perfectly well under Solaris KVM. I've had several vdisk related

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-20 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:13:51PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I am often unable to properly shutdown OpenBSD VMs, disks hang. Using virtio or not does not change that. I did not look into it very deeply yet so ... But I never saw this issue in Linux KVM. Thank you for your response. I'll

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-12 Thread Darren Spruell
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:55 AM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: On 10. oktober 2013 at 7:15 AM, InterNetX - Robert Garrett robert.garr...@internetx.com wrote: I just want to know what a cloud is. Not really satisfied with the definition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing,

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread InterNetX - Robert Garrett
I just want to know what a cloud is. On 10/09/2013 09:05 PM, Dorian H. wrote: I've got a few OpenBSD boxes running at TransIP, very satisfied about it. QEMU/KVM based, and they recently added a new feature, 'private networks' between two or more VPS's. It might not explicitly have the label

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, InterNetX - Robert Garrett robert.garr...@internetx.com wrote: I just want to know what a cloud is. Just a fancy word for 'The Internet' -- chs

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread opendaddy
On 10. oktober 2013 at 7:15 AM, InterNetX - Robert Garrett robert.garr...@internetx.com wrote: I just want to know what a cloud is. Not really satisfied with the definition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing, here's my own attempt at one: A cloud is a bunch of machines connected

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread Florian Obser
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:15:34AM +0200, InterNetX - Robert Garrett wrote: I just want to know what a cloud is. http://xkcd.com/908/ -- I'm not entirely sure you are real.

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread Janne Johansson
Clouds solve problems for you. Like this: http://www.cloudave.com/17213/cloud-is-simple-well-its-real-complex-but-that-complexity-can-and-should-be-hidden-from-users/geek-poke-cloud-complex/ 2013/10/10 Florian Obser flor...@narrans.de On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:15:34AM +0200, InterNetX -

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread opendaddy
On 10. oktober 2013 at 10:34 AM, Janne Johansson icepic...@gmail.com wrote: Clouds solve problems for you. Like this: http://www.cloudave.com/17213/cloud-is-simple-well-its-real- complex-but-that-complexity-can-and-should-be-hidden-from- users/geek-poke-cloud-complex/ 2013/10/10 Florian Obser

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On 10/10/13 09:55, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: On 10. oktober 2013 at 7:15 AM, InterNetX - Robert Garrett robert.garr...@internetx.com wrote: with the possibility of downtime completely eliminated, Please correct me if I'm wrong. You're obviously at least partly wrong. /Alexander

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Darren Spruell
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:16 PM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud hosting provider? No experience with their cloud services, but M5 Hosting proudly offers OpenBSD options. Maybe worth checking out: http://www.m5cloud.com/ -- Darren Spruell

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Kelly
On 9/10/2013 12:16 PM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud hosting provider? CloudSigma do. Looks like you can do a short trial as well. http://www.cloudsigma.com/2013/09/26/running-freebsd-netbsd-and-openbsd-in-the-cloud/

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Beto
Hi, arpnetworks is other option. 2013/10/8 openda...@hushmail.com Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud hosting provider? Digital Ocean looks nice but they don't yet offer OpenBSD (

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Francisco Valladolid H.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Beto b...@compumundohypermegared.org wrote: Hi, arpnetworks is other option. arpnetwork is simple VM, no cloud. I think no support for OpenBSD cloud at this time Regards 2013/10/8 openda...@hushmail.com Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread William Light
cloudsigma does qemu/KVM cloud hosting. i've spun up openbsd VMs there. too pricey for my needs, but maybe it'll work out for you. http://www.cloudsigma.com/ -w On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, at 17:29, Francisco Valladolid H. wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Beto b...@compumundohypermegared.org

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Jiri B
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 01:16:54AM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud hosting provider? Digital Ocean looks nice but they don't yet offer OpenBSD

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:31:02PM -0400, Jiri B wrote: What about Joyent? They ported KVM from Linux to Solaris and they run it under zones. I would trust more Solaris based solution they some hackish Linux setups where every VM runs under root :) I personally use SmartOS and while it is an

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Stephen Drake
On 10/09/13 03:16, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent OpenBSD cloud hosting provider? RootBSD are quite good, I have been using them for a few years now with zero downtime. A bit more pricey compaired to Digital Ocean, but they are solid and support new releases rather

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread Dorian H.
I've got a few OpenBSD boxes running at TransIP, very satisfied about it. QEMU/KVM based, and they recently added a new feature, 'private networks' between two or more VPS's. It might not explicitly have the label 'cloud' attached to it, but still very nice; and quite cheap as well. On Wed, Oct

Re: Best OpenBSD cloud hosting?

2013-10-09 Thread opendaddy
On 9. oktober 2013 at 7:06 PM, Dorian H. doj...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a few OpenBSD boxes running at TransIP, very satisfied about it. QEMU/KVM based, and they recently added a new feature, 'private networks' between two or more VPS's. It might not explicitly have the label 'cloud' attached