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FAQ – Virtualization

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Just started using OpenBSD as my main desktop OS and virtualization was the one thing I was uncertain about (wanted to see if I can setup test machines so that I don't clutter my base system, and it looks like they've added Linux support), but excited to grok how it works. I'm super happy about how solid the system is so far.

It appears to be missing guest SMP support. How is that not a deal breaker?

Eventually it will, but for now my box should be fast enough to make it work for what I'm doing, which is just running a basic server inside.

It doesn't have video support either. I think the needed components are available and other features are presently ancillary.

Ancillary if you’re just doing dev work but rules out use as a VM host for a lot of software.

anyone have experience using bhyve[0] on any BSD flavors?

I am thinking about building a large FreeNAS deployment and virtualizing with bhyve... a few people I asked on IRC recommended against it due to its 'green-ness'

[0] http://bhyve.org/

I'd say that bhyve on FreeNAS is pretty stable. It is not THAT green anymore, it has been there for a few years.

It is also not as slick or feature rich as say any VMware product, but it does what it has to do. It runs VMs and I've seen the VMs survive a few power outages as well.

As always YMMV

Moderators: We should probably link directly to the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html, the undeadly link is nothing other than a 1-paragraph reference linking to the same.

FYI: you can more quickly reach the mods by writing to hn@ycombinator.com

Done, thanks! (Updated from https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20181029144519.)

Thanks. I considered linking directly to the FAQ, but chose the undeadly link instead simply because it highlighted the fact that the FAQ is a new addition, though the infrastructure has been there for a while now.

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