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> Added pvbus(4) paravirtual device tree root on virtual machines that are running on hypervisors.

Which hypervisors are supported, e.g. is AWS an option?

From the man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/...

  Supported hypervisors

  KVM
    Kernel-based Virtual Machine
  Hyper-V
    Microsoft Hyper-V
  VMware
    VMware vSphere Hypervisor and ESXi
  Xen
    Xen VMM

I don't believe OpenBSD on AWS is supported by Amazon, but there are several VPS providers that either provide direct support for OpenBSD VMs, or let you upload the ISO and install it yourself.

https://arpnetworks.com/ is a pretty good provider, and has supported OpenBSD for many years now.

And since Linode is now switching over to KVM and has a direct-disk boot option, that should mean you can run OpenBSD on them as well, which should give Theo a nice case of indigestion.

We've gotten a few people say they got it running now. More choices for everyone :)

Is the network performance of using OBSD as a guest on KVM similar to a linux guest with paravirtualized device drivers?

This network performance question, phrased in the way you did here, comes up a lot. I heard it a couple of times during q&a after talks at EuroBSDcon.

I wonder what answer you expect. A "yes"/"no" answer?

How could anyone answer this question in a meaningful way? How are people supposed to know what kind of performance you need, and for which application? How are people supposed to even judge whether the proposed reference point (Linux) performs well for you?

In the end, the best answer you'll get will always be "try it and see for yourself"...

On DigitalOcean you are able to install FreeBSD, with some custom "hack" you are able to use OpenBSD too since some time. Not sure if the 5.8 release changes something for this though.

http://www.tubsta.com/2015/04/openbsd-on-digital-ocean/

Other than the version number change, I don't think you need to download CURRENT anymore.

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