Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi

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