Re: which ISO for a VM?
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:42 AM, David Coppa wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: >> I have never run OpenBSD before and want to try it out. Wondering if >> there is an ISO I can run in VirtualBox? If not what is the >> recommended method for users who wish to run OpenBSD in >> virtualization? > > dunno if the "disk full" issue on VirtualBox has been solved... > btw OpenBSD works well as vmware guest (tested on both VMware Server > and ESX, with i386 and amd64) > I only experienced the "disk full" alert when using VB's auto expanding disk feature. If you create it as a fixed size, it works just fine. I've used it a dev/test environment for quite some time. -B
Re: which ISO for a VM?
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:23:25AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: | I have never run OpenBSD before and want to try it out. Wondering if | there is an ISO I can run in VirtualBox? If not what is the | recommended method for users who wish to run OpenBSD in | virtualization? I can support Davids suggestion for VMWare. I run VMWare Fusion on one of those highly overpriced laptops from the well known phone^Wtoy company, with a bunch of OS'es (beats carrying a bunch of laptops). OpenBSD runs just fine. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >[<++>-]<+++.>+++[<-->-]<.>+++[<+ +++>-]<.>++[<>-]<+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Re: which ISO for a VM?
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:23:25AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > I have never run OpenBSD before and want to try it out. Wondering if > there is an ISO I can run in VirtualBox? If not what is the > recommended method for users who wish to run OpenBSD in > virtualization? > > Regards, > Zach I'me running i386 and amd64 in virtualbox on freebsd without much problems. Maybe it is not production grade stuff but i use it for some tests etc. Don't expect high performance or stability. Regards Robert
Re: which ISO for a VM?
2010/4/2 Zachary Uram : > I have never run OpenBSD before and want to try it out. Wondering if > there is an ISO I can run in VirtualBox? If not what is the > recommended method for users who wish to run OpenBSD in > virtualization? > > Regards, > Zach > > <>< http://www.fidei.org ><> > > Hi, you can download an iso for i386 here ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/i386/install46.iso and if you like it you can also buy bootable cds from openbsd shop. Best regards -- Matteo Filippetto
Re: which ISO for a VM?
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: > I have never run OpenBSD before and want to try it out. Wondering if > there is an ISO I can run in VirtualBox? If not what is the > recommended method for users who wish to run OpenBSD in > virtualization? dunno if the "disk full" issue on VirtualBox has been solved... btw OpenBSD works well as vmware guest (tested on both VMware Server and ESX, with i386 and amd64) ciao, david
Re: which ISO for a VM?
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:23:25AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > I have never run OpenBSD before and want to try it out. Wondering if > there is an ISO I can run in VirtualBox? If not what is the VB is broken. They're patching the kernel on the fly and seem to miss the right spot depending on the phase of the moon or whatever. Do not blame any issues on OpenBSD. > recommended method for users who wish to run OpenBSD in > virtualization? You may try vmware. cdXX.iso is enough. > > Regards, > Zach > > <>< http://www.fidei.org ><>