On Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 10:49 PM, Matthew Ernisse <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 02:01:54PM +0000, Otto Cooper said: > > > Hardware is moving on, and it is so fast that running a single obsd > > server is a waste. > > > I'd disagree. On the one hand you can absolutely saturate the > performance of a modern system using OpenBSD with several types of > workloads including routing / firewalling. Also there is more than > raw hardware performance as a justification for running software on > bare metal. > > There is also exceedingly "slow" modern hardware available. > > > We need to share intel on successes and failures [...] > > > I have run OpenBSD on both kvm and xen in production as Internet firewalls > for something like 2 decades now. I have nothing exciting to report. > > -- > Please direct replies to the list. Based on your experience, what is most reliable with openbsd: kvm or xen? Since different implementations are available, which one do you prefer and why?
