hello everyone and thank you so much for your help! On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 06:16:08PM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote: > boot> set tty com0 > boot> boot
that is the thing I missed but I'm really happy I did it because I took all your feedbacks to achieve the installation with the procedure below. regards --- starting point ------------------ * Linux 6.12.27-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.27-1 (2025-05-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux * I use no network manager of any kind. just iproute2 * qemu-utils and qemu-system-x86 installed --- allow qemu to use br0 ------------------ mkdir -p /etc/qemu echo allow br0 >> /etc/qemu/bridge.conf --- network setup script ------------------ # eth0 is wired to the internet box (router, dhcp server and port forwarding) # this is a simplified version of the script I use. feedbacks are # welcome and I can provide assistance for troubleshouting # 02:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is for private mac addrs # 02:00:00:00:00:00 is the mac addr you will use to setup DHCP static leases # from your internet box <<% ip -b - link add name br0 type bridge link set br0 address 02:00:00:00:00:00 link set eth0 master br0 link set eth0 up link set br0 up % dhclient br0 --- install OpenBSD ---------------------- wget https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/amd64/miniroot77.img qemu-img create -f qcow2 ocean.qcow2 5G net=' -net nic,model=virtio -net bridge,br=br0 ' ocean=-drive file=ocean.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2 disks="-drive file=iso/miniroot77.img,if=virtio,format=raw $ocean" qemu=' qemu-system-amd64 -enable-kvm -nographic -m 2G ' $qemu $net $disks # when the boot prompt is available, type # boot> set tty com0 # boot> boot # answer the questions # to setup an http source: # ? to get the list of the sources # then select the repo by its number --- run your OpenBSD machine ---------------------- # I do it from a tmux pane so I can watch/use the console $qemu $net $disks -- Marc Chantreux
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