On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 03:52:40PM +0100, MIZSEI Zoltán wrote:
https://jcs.org/2014/09/12/remotely_installing_openbsd_qemu
This is really interesting because it provides the "missing link" to installing OpenBSD with no requirements on the hosting provider whatsoever. All the approaches right now (including Stein's) require either a bootable "Rescue system" (live bootable Linux distribution) or IPMI/KVM console access (to run the installer). But by combining Stein's QEMU and the "takeover.sh" tricks, we can (theoretically) do the following: - create and pivot to an in-memory Linux system, like the "takeover.sh" approach, without rebooting - connect over SSH to the new running system - launch QEMU in the in-memory system - install OpenBSD using the SSH connection This, then, requires neither IPMI/KVM access nor a "rescue system" image. All it needs is a bootable Linux system with SSH access.
