On 2020-06-29 12:54 p.m., Martin wrote:
> George, thanks for your feedback!
>
> I'd prefer OpenBSD in 99% of situations, but now I need to roll out Docker. Docker = linux. So I have to solve all the major issues, especially with clock, and run it for a project using OpenBSD host of course.
Work is an imposed 'choice' ;) and yes that is where virtualization
shines a little light in the tunnel.
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> I set vmd Debian desktop guest a year ago with 5.2.x kernel which boots headless on vmd. Virtual framebuffer used for VNC connection from the same OpenBSD host by vnc viewer. Works perfectly, except clock...
I would be interested in any instructions you might have on setting that up.
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>
> Currently, rebuilt kernel and vmd from -current. Going to make 5.4.x related vmm_clock module for minimalist Alpine-virt Linux guest. I'll report about results once done.
That would be great.
Thanks.
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> Martin
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Monday, June 29, 2020 4:21 PM, George <g.lister@nodeunit.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-06-29 8:51 a.m., Martin Sukany wrote:
>>
>>> Hi George,
>>> did you solved the issue? I remember that I faces similar thing when I installed headless ubuntu as a guest … My issue was related to the fact that I used ‚boot cdrom' directive inside my configuration (seems that there is a bit inconsistency between the man page and the real configuration).
>>> This is is a relevant piece of my config:
>>> vm "ubuntu" {
>>> memory 2G
>>> cdrom /data/vms/_iso/mini-serial.iso
>>> disk /data/vms/ubuntu.raw
>>> interface tap { switch "uplink" }
>>> disable
>>> }
>>> I had bad experience with usage of qcow2 disk format for Linux based guests — especially when you're trying to do dozens of I/O operations — several disk containers crashed before I migrated them to raw format.
>>> if you have more than 4 vms, don't forget to create another /dev/tap<X> device, otherwise you could expect the unexpectable behaviour :)
>>> M>
>> Hello Martin,
>>
>> Thanks for the pointers. I abandoned my Linux efforts, too many issue
>> and things to learn no time now. My goals could be satisfied by an
>> OpenBSD VM and it is much better than most Linuxes ;). I have been
>> swimming against the current (read using things/software/apis/os/tools
>> etc. when people said it is not what is supposed to be done) but as of
>> late I find it more relaxing going with it ;).
>>
>> Virtualization is such a ... mess which like everything else in our
>> lives nowadays is designed to cover another mess ... I want to run Linux
>> software on OpenBSD because I don't want to dedicate a machine to Linux
>> and want to upgrade or run the version I want until I want ... I should
>> be free to make that choice because of "I", sarcastic here, problem is
>> CPU vendors and OS developers have to jump some hoops and add some
>> features to make it happen ... and then things happen that the I does
>> not like.
>>
>> Thanks for adding this info albeit to the wrong thread, I read it
>> because I like Alpine and was thinking of it myself, but they don't have
>> a ready console install version do they?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> George
>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>> I apologize if this maybe out of topic even though it is truly related
>>>>> to VMM than Debian.
>>>>> I am trying to setup a VMM Debian based guest but I'm not able to get it
>>>>> to work. I found some description on the web about which settings to
>>>>> edit in grub.cfg to enable the serial console and created a VM with 10.3
>>>>> in qcow2 disk format in KVM. Now I am trying to start the same on
>>>>> OpenBSD 6.7 but keep getting the connected message and then just
>>>>> "Rebooting " after I hit some keyboard keys seems like baud rate issue
>>>>> but not sure.
>>>>> After messing with it for a while now I am getting a new error:
>>>>> vmctl: could not open disk image(s)
>>>>> even thought the disk is there and readable to the user I have setup in
>>>>> vm.conf in fact I have another VM with the same configuration and disk
>>>>> with the same permissions and in the same location that works (it is
>>>>> OpenBSD based).
>>>>> I would greatly appreciate it if someone has gone this path and can
>>>>> share some config info with me.
>>>>> Cheers and thanks in advance,
>>>>> George
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