Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-28 Thread Hendrik Meyburgh
We have been running succesfully for a very long time, earlier editions (5.5) didn’t recover so well after storage hiccups, but these days running very well, no customizations needed. Sorry I can’t download the vmx right now. OpenBSD 6.3 GENERIC.MP#107 amd64 Running openbgpd, pf and relayd. Esx

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-24 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Ian Darwin wrote: ..., but if you just wanted hosting in a hurry and cheap, vultr.com offers an entry-level vhost with OpenBSD 6.5 (or half a dozen others including BSDs and Linuxes) already installed (or you can use any ISO to install from) for US$2.50/month, with console

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-23 Thread loopw
On 2019-05-22 11:04, Stuart Henderson wrote: No idea, I don't run those. I have some experience: For over three years I have been running a qemu/KVM on Linux hypervisor for a lab that's had at least four running OpenBSD vms with virtio and e1000 nics. The obsd vms have never had a kernel pa

Re: Installer buggy (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
Thanks, Jan, thanks Otto for the personal mail. Yes, the problem is sure that. I will se with the provider. When I changed the fdisk partition (first writes), they were not written, but the disklabel. When I did not, but changed the disklabel, then the disklabel was not changed. I hope enough

Re: Installer buggy (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Jan Vlach
> On Thu, 23 May 2019, Jan Vlach wrote: > > > IIRC, pvscsi used to eat up first write to the paravirtual storage > > device with VMware. Not sure what's the current situation as I tend to > > use LSI Logic SAS. > > I do not understand very much, but yes, something is being eaten up. > > The fs

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Ian Darwin
On 5/23/19 7:51 AM, Roderick wrote: I wonder that no one noted this bugs before: are there no new people installing OpenBSD? Or it is a problem only with VMWare? Yes, the fact that nobody else has run into your problem suggest that it might in fact be your problem. Or your provider may be doin

Re: Installer buggy (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Jan Vlach wrote: IIRC, pvscsi used to eat up first write to the paravirtual storage device with VMware. Not sure what's the current situation as I tend to use LSI Logic SAS. I do not understand very much, but yes, something is being eaten up. The fsck I mentioned before

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Arnaud BRAND
The web console copy/paste functionnality is a VMWare limitation. I don't think it ever worked. It think would require the console to emulate/simulate key presses depending on what is pasted and somehow assuming what the VM keymap is. I didn't try to install 6.5 on ESXI yet, but I definitely inst

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Tom Smyth
include a copy of dmesg and you might get info about the virtual hardware / hypervisor you are running on On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 12:58, Roderick wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May 2019, Arnaud BRAND wrote: > > > So you could try to install 6.4 to see if you have the same problems ? > > Just copied bsd.r

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Arnaud BRAND wrote: So you could try to install 6.4 to see if you have the same problems ? Just copied bsd.rd from 6.4 in the root of the running system and booted it. It was a litle better. My settings to fdisk, namely change of offset from 64 to 2048, were ignored, an

Re: Installer buggy (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Jan Vlach
Hi Rodrigo, IIRC, pvscsi used to eat up first write to the paravirtual storage device with VMware. Not sure what's the current situation as I tend to use LSI Logic SAS. Also, the first eaten-up write would explain why you're still seeing Linux partitions instead of OpenBSD. # fdisk sd0 Disk: sd

Re: Installer buggy (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
Some more details about my experience. Excuseme that I dont take fotos of the screen and just describe, with the data y wrote down. As I wrote, yesterday my instalation did not work. Today morning I began to inspect with the shell of cd65.iso the partitions. fdisk gave me 41943040 sectors div

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Otto Moerbeek wrote: You must be doing something wrong. Since it installer surely leats you use a custom label. But since you are not showgin waht you did and you start insulting remarks, you won't get much help. Excuse me, although my words was not flowers, they were no

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 08:42:05AM +, Roderick wrote: > > Please, delete the cc to b...@openbsd.org in any answer. > > I am now, after hours typing in the damned web console and dealing > with the buggy installer, a little bit furious. This is definitively > not the OpenBSD I know! > > I di

Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
Please, delete the cc to b...@openbsd.org in any answer. I am now, after hours typing in the damned web console and dealing with the buggy installer, a little bit furious. This is definitively not the OpenBSD I know! I did manage to install OpenBSD in VMWare, with the "autopartition", but I w

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Steven Shockley
On 5/22/2019 6:46 AM, Roderick wrote: > Any recommendations in general? Current or stable? I've had bad luck with softupdates and OpenBSD on ESXi when the ESXi datastore is on nfs. (Encountered on ESX 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5; I must not learn from my mistakes.) From what I can tell, if the nfs datasto

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Rudy Baker
There's a bug in ESXI 6.5 specifically with vmxnet 3. We we're using Linux when it was noticed but anytime one of our floating ips (haproxy, keepalived) would switch to the node with vmxnet 3, instant kernel panic. I wonder if the problem is happening to you. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/215148

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Roderick
Of course never booted: /var/log/messages is empty. :) I was too sleepy and optimistic.

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 22 May 2019, Roderick wrote: The installed system seems to boot. Or perhaps not. I put in /etc/hostname.vmx0 with the help of cd65.iso: dhcp. But got no connection. Dificult to know without console. In the rescue disk was "dhclient vmx0" enough for getting connection. I did MBR,

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
No idea, I don't run those. -- Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting. On 22 May 2019 17:20:16 Igor Podlesny wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 23:06, Stuart Henderson wrote: [...] vmxnet3 suffers kernel panics under some conditions, e1000 is rock solid for me. Any known similarities

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Roderick
I thanks a lot! I need a litle more help, I do not want to give up. :) I use now the terms of the provider, I do not like virtual machines and have no experience with them. I loaded cd65.iso in the providers platform as "other 64-bit OS image". Then I loaded it in the (virtual) DVD rom and sta

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Igor Podlesny
On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 23:06, Stuart Henderson wrote: [...] > vmxnet3 suffers kernel panics under some conditions, e1000 is rock solid > for me. Any known similarities in regards of vio -- VirtIO network device (bhyve, KVM, QEMU, and VirtualBox)? -- End of message. Next message?

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-05-22, Reyk Floeter wrote: > > But unfortunately, there is no openbsd template. So use "Other 64bit" > and enable vmxnet3 manually, as mentioned in vmx(4): > > The following entry must be added to the VMware configuration file to > provide the vmx device: > >ethernet

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Adam Thompson
On 2019-05-22 09:25, mxb wrote: I think FreeBSD or any Linux template will work just fine and add vmxnet3. However, last I checked (1year ago) vmxnet3 been less stable than e1000 under pressure. Don't use the Linux templates. I would recommend against using the FreeBSD templates, and go with

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread R0me0 ***
Vmware ESXI detects as FreeBSD 32bit. Set network interface to vmxnet3. Also you can use pvscsi driver ( I had some issues with filesystem corruption, there is a weird bug, but there is a workaround.) In general buslogic is more resilient. Regards, Em qua, 22 de mai de 2019 às 14:26, mxb esc

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread mxb
I think FreeBSD or any Linux template will work just fine and add vmxnet3. However, last I checked (1year ago) vmxnet3 been less stable than e1000 under pressure. Sent from my iDevice > 22 мая 2019 г., в 13:47, Reyk Floeter написал(а): > >> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:43:35PM +0200, Janne Joha

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:43:35PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > Den ons 22 maj 2019 kl 12:52 skrev Roderick : > > > Hallo! > > As far as I read in WWW, OpenBSD do run on VMware ESXi out of the box. > > What does run better on amd64 virtual machine? i386 or amd64? > > Are there reasons to preffe

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 22 maj 2019 kl 12:52 skrev Roderick : > Hallo! > As far as I read in WWW, OpenBSD do run on VMware ESXi out of the box. > What does run better on amd64 virtual machine? i386 or amd64? > Are there reasons to preffer one to the other? > The ESX template for 64-bit comes with more recent "ha

Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Roderick, use amd64 ... as it offers better mitigation's and has better support overall also if your hypervisor / machine offers nested virtualisation you would be able to run vmm inside your machine... i386 does not have support for vmm anymore use stable if you want to run in production, a

OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

2019-05-22 Thread Roderick
Hallo! As far as I read in WWW, OpenBSD do run on VMware ESXi out of the box. What does run better on amd64 virtual machine? i386 or amd64? Are there reasons to preffer one to the other? Any recommendations in general? Current or stable? I have a virtual server, just for testing, at the mome