I use "OpenBSD as my Desktop OS". What are my choices to run a Linux Distribution, or a Windows (XP/7) in a Virtual Machine?
I know that the following apps are not available for OBSD:
- VirtualBox
- XEN
- I know that both KVM and QEMU are available on FreeBSD, but I'm not sure about OpenBSD.Sean C.– Sean C.2011-07-20 17:43:47 +00:00Commented Jul 20, 2011 at 17:43
- Please stop using "e.g" and "what if"s in your questions, they only confuse matters. Just ask!Caleb– Caleb2011-07-20 18:16:49 +00:00Commented Jul 20, 2011 at 18:16
- From Wikipedia it seems that QEMU is the only option: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machinesVitor Py– Vitor Py2011-07-20 21:35:48 +00:00Commented Jul 20, 2011 at 21:35
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QEMU is available for BSD, although it looks like you might have to do a little fiddling to get it to go based on NetBSD packages. Here is a guy that got Windows to run in QEMU on OpenBSD.
I was able to use Qemu in 5.0 - http://www.dannosite.com/?q=node/178 , but the kqemu software that used to speed up Qemu is now gone, because the parent project no longer uses it. This means using an older version of Qemu that supports KQemu, or the newer non-KQemu Qemu.
Both are in packages.
Since quite recently, OpenBSD has the ability to run virtual machines natively using vmd(8), a virtual machine daemon.
See vmd(8), vmctl(8) and vm.conf(5) for details.
The following blog works through an installation of an OpenBSD VM on top of OpenBSD 6.1, but I know for a fact that people have also been running various Linuxes in vmd: http://blog.hermes-technology.de/openbsd/server/virtualmachine/network/2017/06/12/vmd-for-a-virtual-server-network.html
