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FreeBSD and/or OpenBSD on LEB
ksx4system
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I was searching for a cheap and small (under 256Mb of ram, under 10Gb of disk, around 50Gb monthly transfer) VPS. This time I was looking for something FreeBSD ready (preferably jail but Xen/KVM/VMware supported by provider will be ok too) or OpenBSD ready. I'm currently trying out cheapest plan @ hub.org, afair somebody from this company was affiliated with FreeBSD project. Did anybody have any experiences with company mentioned above? Is there any cheap enough (LEB range, less than 4-5$ for me) FreeBSD ready provider closer to Europe (hub.org runs in Panama)?
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How about http://nqhost.com/cheap-vps.html or http://www.xensmart.co.uk/hvmplans.php ?
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/502/openbsd-leb
http://hostigation.com/
http://encept.com/
http://govpsgo.com/
try it.
The one thing about KVM and FreeBSD is that I don't think the virtio drivers are very good, so performance won't be amazing.
They are incompatible, so not even an option
http://kdl.nobugware.com/post/2011/10/14/freebsd-90-guest-virtio-support-in-KVM/
I know a few different groups have been working on it, but it seems there's some support now.
Thank you all for your replies
especially @Kairus and @miTgiB for mentioning that FreeBSD 8.2 doesn't like to be inside KVM-based virtual machine.
I haven't had any trouble with FreeBSD 8.2 on KVM via http://TinyKVM.com/ (AKA RamHost.us). The above linked post has been edited to note that the driver is now in trunk for 9.0.
Disk/Network performance won't be as good as Linux with Virtio drivers. On my Hostigation KVM I installed FreeBSD and was getting around 46MB/s dd speeds, under Arch, I'm getting 110MB+/s.
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FAIL! Wrong thread!
@Kairus
We have found that SCSI and virtio perform about the same under more recent KVM versions (we run all our KVM stuff on a 2.6.35 base).
All of our KVM VPS's are using the SCSI drivers by default for that reason.
We have several people running both FreeBSD and OpenBSD on our KVM platform and they work well.
I'm running FreeBSD 9.0 with virtio on my BuyVM KVM VPS . I really want to run OpenBSD on my vps, but no virtio drivers for OpenBSD, result in poor I/O performance!
maybe http://prgmr.com/xen/?
Isn't virtio included with 5.0 or is that NetBSD I am thinking of?
@miTgiB OpenBSD 5.0 didn't include virtio drivers. I'm feeling happy with my FreeBSD now. I will back to OpenBSD when it has virtio drivers
prgmr has been out of stock for a while now afaik
@kbar, I've check their site before recommending them. They still have stock, just check their site.
yeah i'm probably gonna grab one after i let some of my current invoices expire.
but at that point i might as well consider just colo'ing
FYI, Virtio drivers for OpenBSD http://www.sfritsch.de/~stf/openbsd-virtio/
necro
Oh, I installed freebsd on my new kvm leb, without knowing this issue. So maybe this explain the low io speed.
I tried to install into one of my KVM. it goes to infinite loop when selecting guided partition and says "installation step has been aborted.".
Anyone experienced this? Thanks
I got a Nice kvm from @mon5t3r in LU (europe)
Support is very good
I forgot to say here...
GetKVM if you're going for a KVM in Europe. Totes.
There's also prometeus and EDIS
Hell It should all work
How about VDS6.net? They are using BSD Jail.
installer doesn't recognize virtio block devices
you can try thehosthouse.co.uk
They support freebsd
some lowendbox promo are still avalaible here
https://secure.thehosthouse.co.uk/cart.php?gid=15
They have also good support and uptime
I used a debian 6 kvm vps for a year