OpenBSD is not supported under Virtual PC, this frequent traveller’s solution used to be carrying two laptops. Nowadays, unless the ability to perform traffic analysis with OpenBSD kernel-land is a requirement, there is no reason Virtual PC cannot be as effective a substitute for real Intel hardware with OpenBSD as it is with Windows for client-side applications.

peter bartol offer great ressources, patch, source diff to install openbsd up to the latest version 3.2.

For the most part, OpenBSD/i386 works very well with Virtual PC with little modification from the original OpenBSD codebase. So long as you’re running version 5.0 or up, you should be able to grab a floppy image, boot, and install without any patching, even over the network. Bootable Virtual PC hard disk images are provided below to facilitate network installations and automate the installation of Virtual PC fixes.

[url=http://slagheap.net/openbsd/]the OpenBSD on Virtual PC project[/url]

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Filed under: Apple - @ March 18, 2003 7:55 pm