Hi,
This problem looks very similar as:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=140288534929223&w=2
On my i386 KVM after each upgrade I run this:
#!/bin/sh
for kernel in /bsd /bsd.mp
do
config -fe $kernel << EOF
find mpbios
disable mpbios
find mpbios
find acpimadt
disable acpimadt
find acpimadt
quit
EOF
done
Please CC me in any replies, I'm not receiving mails from `misc`
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:21:48PM -0600, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A few months ago I tried to install OpenBSD 5.5 in a KVM virtual machine
> running Linux in an amd64 computer. First tried to install the i386 version
> since my Linux virtual machines are i686 and was painfully slow, so much
> that I almost decided to not use OpenBSD. Then I tried with the amd64
> version and ran blazingly fast, was so impressed that I'm here.
>
> Time passed and installed some i386 virtual machines running in atom chips
> without issues and so far have been running fine so I forgot the issue, but
> last week started to upgrade them to 5.6 and was again painfully slow, one
> hour to upgrade each one. And since the slow part of upgrading was at
> untarring and the LED of the disk was blinking like crazy I supposed it was
> some issue with the virtual hard disk.
>
> Now that I know more about OpenBSD tried again to install the same 5.5
> version in the same amd64 computer, but this time using the virtio drivers,
> and in less than 5 minutes installed a new OpenBSD server with no issues at
> all. As reference this is the kvm command I used:
>
> kvm -vnc :15 -m 256 -name openbsd -pidfile /qemu/OpenBSD/OpenBSD.pid -k es
> -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:84,model=virtio -net tap,ifname=tap17 -drive
> file=/dev/eliseos/qemu-004,cache=none,if=virtio -cdrom
> /software/OpenBSD/5.5/i386/install55.iso -boot d -daemonize
>
> I would like to share this because I have read in many places about hard
> disk slowliness with OpenBSD, verly likely dissapointing new users when in
> fact OpenBSD is very good.
>
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best regards
q#
