Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

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.

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> 22 мая 2019 г., в 13:47, Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org> написал(а):
>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:43:35PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote:
>> Den ons 22 maj 2019 kl 12:52 skrev Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> 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 "hardware" in the
>> environment IIRC, so it will be less tweaking the supplied virtualized
>> hardware if you select 64bit guest instead of 32bit.
>> Apart from that, 64bit is better on both virtual and real hw.
>>
>
> 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:
>
> ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"
>
> This is much better than the e1000 emulation.
>
> Reyk
>