On Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 10:49 PM, Matthew Ernisse <mernisse@ub3rgeek.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Please direct replies to the list.
Based on your experience, what is most reliable with openbsd: kvm or xen?
Since different implementations are available, which one do you prefer and why?
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