On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:45:37PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > I personally use SmartOS and while it is an awesome system, OpenBSD > > does not always behave perfectly well under Solaris KVM. I've had > > several vdisk related issues. In my experience, Linux KVM is a better > > container for our OS. > > Could you elaborate on this? I've run OpenBSD under SmartOS briefly a > few months ago and it seemed to run just fine on my own test box. Were > you using the virtio(4) drivers? I did have network troubles when I > tried them but that was early this year and using the non-virtio network > setup seemed to work fine. I don't remember what I did for disk > settings. I'll have to look at my backups.
I am often unable to properly shutdown OpenBSD VMs, disks hang. Using virtio or not does not change that. I did not look into it very deeply yet so ... But I never saw this issue in Linux KVM. -- Antoine
