openbsd 6.0 or 6.1 guest on freebsd-12 (current) host

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 7 14:28:50 UTC 2017


On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Jason Tubnor <jason at tubnor.net> wrote:
> On 6 September 2017 at 22:15, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Have you encountered anything on openbsd in a bhyve that you've found
>> not to work?
>>
>>
> As Thomas mentioned, there is/was a bug with certain CPUs, but this was due
> to the strict checking of CPU features that OpenBSD introduced (
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149136173520510&w=2).  Peter explained
> the switch to get around that issue (-w).
>
> The only other thing is Jumbo frame support, but that is really down to
> limits in VirtIO and not really a show stopper and doesn't affect anything
> in production for us.
>
> Enjoy bhyve, it has been a drop in replacement for our individual ESXi
> instances and has been bulletproof, which is good as we have hypervisor
> hosts over 6 hour drives away! (Oh the uplift from 11.0 to 11.1 was done
> remotely without nuking the host).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason.

Do you have a semiautomated way to move bhyve instances between
different hosts?  Without such a feature, we can't replace all of our
ESXi machines.

-Alan


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