Pf.conf

Virtualization

Prerequisites

Processor compatibility can be checked with the following command:

$ dmesg | egrep '(VMX/EPT|SVM/RVI)'
vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT
vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT

Before going further, enable and start the vmd(8) service.

$ doas rcctl enable vmd
$ doas rcctl start vmd

Starting a VM

$ doas vmctl create -s 50G OpenBSD.img
vmctl: raw imagefile created
$ doas vmctl start -m 1G -L -i 1 -r install78.iso -d OpenBSD.img OpenBSD
vmctl: started vm 1 successfully, tty /dev/ttyp3

$ vmctl show
   ID   PID VCPUS  MAXMEM  CURMEM     TTY        OWNER    STATE NAME
    1 17157     1    1.0G    179M   ttyp3         root  running OpenBSD

$ doas vmctl console OpenBSD
Connected to /dev/ttyp3 (speed 115200)

Press Enter to begin the installation.