The OpenBSD hypervisor in the wild, a short story


OpenBSD Amsterdam started in the summer of 2018 after a poll on


Twitter as an idea to start testing with vmm(4)/vmd(8). Mostly to see
how far we could take it and more importantly to give back to the
project. Little did we know where it would take us.




During this talk I will outline how it all started, how it’s build,
how we operate the platform and what speedbumps we encountered.




We are a big proponent of using as much out of OpenBSD base as
possible and it has influenced our design choices a lot. These choices
will be highlighted when discussing how the platform is build and how
it’s operated.




Mischa Peters




Mischa Peters is a long term BSD user, starting with FreeBSD 2.x and
later OpenBSD as well. He is operating a hosting and co-location company
out of Amsterdam The Netherlands, currently focused on providing
services on top of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. The OpenBSD Amsterdam project is
a good example of it. For his $dayjob he is a…