OpenBSD on Digital Ocean

Re:OpenBSD on Digital Ocean by jlgaddis on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:03PM (#9854561)

Okay, I know someone here is trying this... success or failure?

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Re:OpenBSD on Digital Ocean by wtn on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:51PM (#9854843)

I used these instructions a few weeks ago and they worked. You will need to download miniroot58.fs (not miniroot57.fs).

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Re:OpenBSD on Digital Ocean by eloy on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @06:08PM (#9854930)

True indeed, the article was written a week before the release of 5.8...

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Re:OpenBSD on Digital Ocean by wooger on Thursday July 09, 2015 @07:00AM (#9857168)

Huh, 5.8 hasn't been released? What you mean is that snapshots / current are now using that version number.

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Re:OpenBSD on Digital Ocean by dougb on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:53AM (#9857824)

I got it installed, but there were problems. A lot of programs fail with SIGILL, illegal instruction. OpenSSL fails in OPENSSL_ia32_cpuid() Anybody get past this ?

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Re:OpenBSD on Digital Ocean by geographomics on Friday July 17, 2015 @04:01PM (#9904948)

I also get coredumps from openssl, ssh-keygen, and smtpctl on the first boot. The common factor for all of these is the XGETBV instruction - unfortunately it looks like DigitalOcean's setup of KVM doesn't support it.

This was just on amd64 though - installing OpenBSD for i386 seems to work okay, apart from sometimes hanging on boot (not sure why this is).

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