Thank you everyone for your responses; I do have alpine running in a virtual machine now, thanks to the '-B cdrom' and virt iso suggestions, and I am able to ssh in.
I was unable to run the VM with an encrypted disk; is this even a practical thing to do anyways? I mean is it enough to assume that if I just keep my file with correct permissions in my home directory on my OpenBSD host that it is enough to have comfort that my VM is, "safe enough," from what would be prying eyes? Since the reason I want a VM is to try to keep my applications to a minimum on the base install, and to run things like a browser and office suite which use a multitude of libraries in the VM. I had the thought that this might be more secure but maybe I'm wrong. -- Mary weeping under Jesus crucified. On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 21:39, Mark Cornick <[mcorn...@mcornick.com](mailto:On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 21:39, Mark Cornick <<a href=)> wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 01:18:00PM +0000, Lux of the Agony wrote: >> Is it possible to run Alpine Linux in a virtual machine on OpenBSD? I tried >> booting using the iso from their website, but in the console I just got a >> black screen. If anyone has done this successfully, I'd like the commandline >> I need to boot up from the iso file. Thanks! > > Use the Alpine "virt" ISO. It enables serial console by default. I've > used it to successfully install and boot Alpine under vmm. It picks a > fairly slow baud rate for ttyS0, but you can fix that after install > by editing /etc/inittab.
