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Virtual Machine Manager

VMM is the virtualization platform for the OpenBSD OS platform. For years the only virtualization solution for OpenBSD systems was Qemu without KVM acceleration. This meant virtual machines were painfully slow to use, and very limited by resources. It took several years before a solution for virtualization on OpenBSD systems was created, and by then virtualization had become an old hat. Comparatively, VMM is still in its infancy, and still does not provide graphical support for desktop environments. There is also confusion over how to properly configure networking to allow virtual machine instances to access an external network. This confusion comes from the active development status of the VMM solution. Perhaps one day, the mysteries of this method will be further ironed out. (Whatever the fuck that means.)

Primer on OpenBSD VM Creation

At the timer of writing this, VMM only supports Linux and BSD systems, and there is no graphical functionality. Before beginning creation of a virtual machine be sure to enable port forwarding on your system. Then enable the virtual machine daemon using sudo rcctl enable vmd && sudo rcctl start vmd.

References

• https://xosc.org/vmm.html
• https://blog.strus.guru/2021/10/containerized-development-environment-on-openbsd-with-podman/
• http://www.h-i-r.net/2017/04/openbsd-vmm-hypervisor-part-2.html
• https://giocher.com/words/2018/ubuntu-on-openbsd-vmm/