Has anyone gotten virtio working with a FreeBSD VPS?
Has anyone gotten the virtio drivers to work with a FreeBSD VM?
my vm seems horribly bogged down right now - too much contention on the host?
there's a couple second delay to every command-line command, ls, cd, etc.
and stuff like opening vim or running rsync are horrendously slow
raptelan: if you run mtr on the vm pointed at whatever ip you're connected to it from, are you seeing a lot of loss or anything?
no, it's perfectly responsive
keyboard input is fine - it's not fine when the network is bad
it's just very slow
huh. i'd fire an email to support and see what they can do
it will probably just clear up; we'll see
I haven't noticed this ever happening before
hazardous: ah ok
raptelan: what is your vnc host?
up_the_irons: Hey man, sorry to keep buggin ya but any chance of hookin up that iso for me today? In return: vast ritches, beer, women, etc
hello!
Need to get this POC off the ground for getting rid of our own gear :)
Although, we're gonna have to keep the sparc stuff I guess
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houst0n: i did all my tickets yesterday, when did you send yours? perhaps it got lost
houst0n: how much sparc stuff do you have?
houst0n: i checked up on that ticket, i replied and it was completed.  you even replied to my reply ;)  please check again , it's done :)
up_the_irons: I don't know.
up_the_irons: ah, kvr19
Oh, cool thanks
:)
houst0n: np:)
raptelan: kvr19 load is within tolerance
 13:23:55 up 162 days, 15:33,  1 user,  load average: 1.95, 1.61, 1.56
raptelan: sorry i can't be more helpful
what's sparc o-o
We're a solaris ISV, so we have a reasonable amount of sparc :)
You have sparc VMs now?
CaZe: For years and years
Was asking up_the_irons.
CaZe: negative
Cool, it's installing. I forgot to tape a copy of the route table on the old VM - do I need any magic there?
Or should i RTFW(wiki)
houst0n: ip assignments are listed in the Portal
Also, pro tip, solaris does NOT LIKE FreeBSD formatted disks
had to dd the start of em heh
found it, thx
Man, a Sparc VPS would be so cool.
Probably a lot of extra work, though.
CaZe, would you be interested in that commercially or just to mess around with?
Just to mess around.
It's too bad that sparc never got more popular. It was a good architecture. I can't see it getting any less obscure under Oracle.
CaZe: just get a sparc v system (t2000,t3000, etc) and install openbsd, it can control the guest domains now ;-)
Really? I thought OPenBSD was only supported as guest.
on sparc64 ... lookup ldomd
www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldomd
oops memory is bad, not ldomd, what is it hrm
Sorry, no data found for `ldomd'.
heh
flip archs to sparc64
or add &arch=sparc64
it is ldomd afterall
does it work? I heard it wasn't done before.
I know several devs are using it, and some of the sparc64 ports are built in guest domains
ah. nice
I'd like to get one personally too, just haven't saved up enough to pull the trigger just yet, not all that expensive on ebay
Well, I'd need someplace to put it, even if I had one.
that's what stops me. they're going to be loud, and I have no room for loud servers in my house.
that and "do I really need another toy?"
ok so stupid poll, who would pay for a sparc64 vps that had a v6 address and perhaps v4 tunneled to it?
or would you want it in a real hosting center, aka arpmetal with 'bring your own server' ?
I think it sounds neat, but I have no use for such a system.
What's the network connection for the first option?
my home business internet to start with 28mb down 12mbit up mostly unused ;-) I don't exactly have excess funds but maybe I could justify purchasing a system if I could generate a (admittedly small) amount of revenue off of it until i could get it in a real datacenter ..
Hmm, I'd go for either, I suppose.
hope this is not too off topic, but .. if anybody wants to talk about a sparc64 guest domain on a system I'd setup and is obviously not connected with arpnetworks in any way .. email your interest to todd@freedaemon.com so I have some way to get in contact with you .. probably would be good to state what you'd want (mem/disk/cpu) and how long you'd be interested for (aka my timeline to get something together) ..