VPS providers that allow use your own image/kernel

🔗Google cloud (only ipv4)

Allows to upload compreses raw images:

tar --format=gnutar -Szcf disk.tar.gz disk.raw

MTU needs to be set to 1460 and in some cases disable the checksum offload

🔗Amazon AWS (only ipv4)

Images can't be uploaded compressed, ans disabling TSO is required:

ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP -tso"

🔗IPV6 support

🔗vultr

https://www.vultr.com/

Instead of uploading the raw images, they will be fetched, a URL needs to be provider from where the image can be downloaded.

🔗netcup (avoid ⚠️ )

https://www.netcup.eu/

Very good prices, Images need to be uploaded via FTP.

There is an issue while rebooting instances due a bug on QEMU/KVM.

  • https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4377
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1329956

To replicate once login is up and running just reboot and later will stuck in the booting process like this:

usb2-netcup

To fix this, the virtual machine needs to be moved to another updated server.

headsup about German Provider Policies

🔗lunanode

https://lunanode.com

Similar to netcup but only IPv4 and with "Floating IPs"

Images need to be in QCOW2 format

🔗script to create images:

https://fabrik.red