Re: OpenBSD packages extremely outdated?

openda...@hushmail.com writes: Hello, Are OpenBSD's packages extremely outdated? What would you say to this guy? At least with Linux I don't have to wait 6 hours for all my software to finish compiling. Think about all the trees that are unnecessarily cut down because of all that

Re: new to OpenBSD and have a few questions

I heartily recommend Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition. The answers to (almost) all of your questions, and others that are bound to come up, can be found there. It's written at a nice intermediate level. Also, is it necessary to partition your disk into smaller pieces? I mean, I can understand why

Re: new to OpenBSD and have a few questions

Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com writes: Certainly I will need to create a mount point for a /opt filesystem ... I'm not sure why you would want a /opt filesystem. In OpenBSD, ports and packages install under /usr/local/ I suggest trying those and, in general, getting used to how OpenBSD

Re: Software for time management calendar

Lampshade lampsh...@poczta.fm writes: What software you use for this purposes? I use GNU Emacs with org-mode. Emacs is included in OpenBSD packages.

vmd: upper limit on number of vm's?

Dear List, I am experimenting with virtual machines (vmd) in recent OpenBSD snapshots. Having gotten a few VMs working, I am eager to make many more and also run them. I'm pleased to have an autoinstall process running from a vmd instance. However, when running more than 4 instances, I run into

vmd: keeping time in vm's

Dear List, I've recently learned (and discovered) that time in VM's is tricky business. I'm looking for the least stupid way to keep any semblance of time in vmd instances while I hungrily await a "correct solution" to descend from the heavens. I've disabled openntpd, installed ntp package (but

Re: vmd: keeping time in vm's

Eric Brown <br...@fastmail.com> writes: > Dear List, > > I've recently learned (and discovered) that time in VM's is tricky > business. I'm looking for the least stupid way to keep any semblance of > time in vmd instances while I hungrily await a "correct solution"

Re: vmd: upper limit on number of vm's?

Gregor Best <g...@unobtanium.de> writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:33:19AM -0600, Eric Brown wrote: >> [...] >> # tail -4 /var/log/messages >> Feb 9 11:21:44 air vmd[73442]: parent terminating >> Feb 9 11:21:47 air vmd[73405]: config_setv

Re: vmd: upper limit on number of vm's?

Gregor Best writes: > Hi, > >> [...] >> # tail -4 /var/log/messages >> Feb 9 11:21:44 air vmd[73442]: parent terminating >> Feb 9 11:21:47 air vmd[73405]: config_setvm: can't open tap tap: No >> such file or directory >> [...] > > You're probably missing the device files for

Setting MAC address of vm in vm.conf with lladdr

Dear List, I am using the current snapshot (Dec 3 as of this post), and I am trying to set the MAC address of a vm host in vm.conf. However, the MAC address reported by ifconfig -a seems to change with each restart. The lladdr that I had typed in was from a copy/paste of a random assignment, so

Re: Setting MAC address of vm in vm.conf with lladdr

Reyk Floeter writes: > I cannot reproduce it, it works as intended. Are you sure that you > were looking at the MAC address on the "VM guest side" and not on the > host side, as mentioned in vm.conf(5): > > lladdr etheraddr > Change the link