FWIW, the kernels running in my -stable guests are considerably larger than 8MB, and not much smaller than the -CURRENT kernels.
---------- a running LDOM guest ------------- -bash-4.4$ doas cu -l ttyV0 Connected to /dev/ttyV0 (speed 9600) OpenBSD/sparc64 (puffyone.ldom.openbsd.local) (console) login: axon Password: Last login: Fri May 26 00:46:47 on console OpenBSD 6.1 (GENERIC.MP) #58: Sat Apr 1 17:10:24 MDT 2017 Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system. [...] You have new mail. $ uname -a OpenBSD puffyone.ldom.openbsd.local 6.1 GENERIC.MP#58 sparc64 $ ls -la /bsd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9487408 Dec 31 1999 /bsd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2739432 Dec 31 1999 /bsd.rd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9440853 Dec 31 1999 /bsd.sp -------- the -CURRENT image (bsd.rd's been copied to bsd for testing) --------- -bash-4.4$ doas vnconfig /dev/vnd0c /home/axon/vm/vdisk5 -bash-4.4$ doas mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt -bash-4.4$ ls -al /mnt/bsd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2749459 May 26 22:02 /mnt/bsd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9531028 May 26 22:02 /mnt/bsd.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2749459 May 24 18:28 /mnt/bsd.rd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9480748 May 24 18:28 /mnt/bsd.sp On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:06 AM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > Ax0n wrote: > > Is this limit specifically for LDOM guests? I have a Sun Blade 1500 I > could > > compile a custom -CURRENT kernel with, if that might help. Though I'm not > > sure I want to do that with every snapshot I try. > > Not specifically, but the limit can vary by hardware. If you want to run a > snapshot now, a custom kernel with a few devices removed will help. We'll > have > to make a similar long term fix anyway. > >
