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Installing Alpine Linux in OpenBSD's VMM Hypervisor
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# Assuming you're a regular user that has doas allowances for vmctl | |
mkdir -p ~/vmm | |
cd ~/vmm | |
# Grab the the one of the virt iso's of Alpine Linux | |
curl https://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/releases/x86_64/alpine-virt-3.6.0-x86_64.iso -o alpine-virt-3.6.0-x86_64.iso | |
# Make a new virtual disk image, change the size as needed | |
vmctl create alpine-virt.img -s 6G | |
# Boot Alpine from the ISO. Make sure you have this exact disk order because as of 29 May 2017 | |
# VMM's SeaBIOS will only try to boot from the first one it seems! | |
# Also, this assumes: | |
# - you want 1024M of memory, tune as desired | |
# - you configured a virtual switch called "local" in your /etc/vm.conf | |
# (see: http://www.h-i-r.net/2017/04/openbsd-vmm-hypervisor-part-2.html) | |
doas vmctl start alpine -d alpine-virt-3.6.0-x86_64.iso -d alpine-virt.img -n local -m 1024M -c | |
# You shoud get a serial console connection immediately. Hit enter or whatever to boot Alpine. | |
# Once in Alpine, run: | |
setup-alpine | |
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Looks like recent patch in 7.2 fixed this. Thank you!