OpenBSD virtualization

hitest · 11-06-2016, 04:20 PM

An interesting article on undeadly.org about virtualization on OpenBSD. Does anyone know if there's a timeline for providing Linux or Windows virtual machines on OpenBSD? Just curious.

jggimi · 11-07-2016, 06:23 AM

No timeline, even for other BSDs, though both FreeBSD and NetBSD have been tested according to Mike Larkin's presentation from bhyvecon.

Two items of note, today:

VM kernels are loaded by the hypervisor, not by a bootloader. These must be monolithic ELF.
VMs are not provided with graphics devices. The guest OS must support serial console operations.

hitest · 11-07-2016, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jggimi

No timeline, even for other BSDs, though both FreeBSD and NetBSD have been tested according to Mike Larkin's presentation from bhyvecon.

Two items of note, today:

VM kernels are loaded by the hypervisor, not by a bootloader. These must be monolithic ELF.
VMs are not provided with graphics devices. The guest OS must support serial console operations.

Thanks for the reply, jggimi. I appreciate that.

jggimi · 11-07-2016, 09:36 AM

If you're interested in how it all works, I wrote a short howto-ish blog about setting up a guest.

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10001

hitest · 11-07-2016, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jggimi

If you're interested in how it all works, I wrote a short howto-ish blog about setting up a guest.

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10001

Thanks, mate! I will check that out.