I own a server at Online.net which now runs VMware ESXi free edition. The thing is VMs have to access the Wild Wild Web and provide public services while still being protected. So let’s configure OpenBSD to do so.Continue reading...
My ESXi is provided by Online.net and accessible from Internet. Reading the VMware documentation, one can see:
ESXi includes a firewall that is enabled by default.
At installation time, the ESXi firewall is configured to block incoming and outgoing traffic, except traffic for services that are enabled in the host’s security profile.
But the default security profile is way too loose! So here’s how to harden it a bit.Continue reading...
I decided to run VMware ESXi on my Online/Scaleway Start-2-L server. Using the online.net installer, you can “only” get ESXi 6.5.0d (64BITS). So here’s how to upgrade to 6.7.Continue reading...
On my new OpenBSD servers, I decided to use memory filesystem for /tmp. After looking at old servers usage, I decided that 64M of memory space would be enough.
# grep mfs /etc/fstab swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=64m 0 0 And that seemed well sized. Until I ran syspatch(8) and got a whole bunch of errors:Continue reading...
I had difficulties running Linux as a virtual machine using OpenBSD vmd(8). Ubuntu LTS crashed during installation wizard, Debian 9 does not seem to ship with virtio drivers, Alpine randomly freezes the console and Slackware … well slack has not been updated in years. Arch Linux seems to run well. And as I didn’t find a complete guide to install and run it using OpenBSD vmd(8), here are my notes.Continue reading...