3 Dec
2016
3 Dec
'16
10:47 p.m.
Hi Craig,
TL;DR: No. Sorry.
On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 09:56:19PM +0000, craig(a)craigm.net wrote:
Have had bitfolk recommended and it has been said that
custom ISOs
can be uploaded, which I've also read on the website.
You can't at the moment install from a typical operating system
install ISO I'm afraid. The "will upload own image" text really
refers to uploading something that will work as a Xen PV guest.
You can boot into the Rescue VM, which is a "live" environment based
on Debian GNU/Linux, and from there can write arbitrary data to your
block devices. So if your chosen OS has a kernel that works under
Xen PV then you should be able to install it, with some degree of
hassle.
OpenBSD 5.9 and 6.0, last and current releases, have
native Xen PVHVM
drivers.
I'm not familiar with the state of OpenBSD but the last thing I did
read was that OpenBSD using PVHVM drivers was still very much a work
in progress and therefore not something I would want to sell to
someone. There may have been improvements since.
Is this enough for me to be able to install OpenBSD
into a
guest instance?
No I don't think so as we currently only do PV, not PVHVM.
I'm looking for a VPS service, based in the UK,
that I can run
OpenBSD on. Can this be done with bitfolk?
No.
I could recommend Bytemark or Portfast, which both use KVM, so you
should be able to run anything that runs on amd64. I've never used
either of them (or any other VPS service based in UK, for fairly
obvious reasons), but have heard enough praise to know they are
decent.
Cheers,
Andy
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