Re: Running obsd as a virtual machine with hardware passthrough

On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 02:01:54PM +0000, Otto Cooper said:

> Hardware is moving on, and it is so fast that running a single obsd
> server is a waste.

I'd disagree. On the one hand you can absolutely saturate the
performance of a modern system using OpenBSD with several types of
workloads including routing / firewalling. Also there is more than
raw hardware performance as a justification for running software on
bare metal.

There is also exceedingly "slow" modern hardware available.

> We need to share intel on successes and failures [...]

I have run OpenBSD on both kvm and xen in production as Internet firewalls
for something like 2 decades now. I have nothing exciting to report.

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