OpenBSD on Hyper-V Primer
I am fed up with VMWAre Workstation and I’d like to check if Hyper-V is a better alternative for me. This is not a tutorial but just a primer and scratchpad note mainly for me, thus those very brief notes.
- Enable Hyper-V
- Add User to Group “Hyper-V Administrators”
- Create NAT Switch (Run as Hyper-V Administrator)
New-VMSwitch -Name NATSwitch -SwitchType Internal
Get-NetAdapter -Name *NATSwitch*
- Setup Network for VMs. Hypter-V does not do DHCP, it just provides a switch, which I dig. (Run as Administrator)
- Setup IP Gateway IP Address for VMs. You need the IfIndex from the
Get-NetAdaptercommand from above
- Setup IP Gateway IP Address for VMs. You need the IfIndex from the
New-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 198.18.0.1 -PrefixLength 24 -InterfaceIndex 42
- Now setup NAT
New-NetNat -Name HyperVNAT -InternalIPInterfaceAddressPrefix 198.18.0.0/24
We can setup our VM now:
New-VM -Name "obsd test" -MemoryStartupBytes 1GB -Generation 1 -BootDevice CD -SwitchName NATSwitch -NewVHDPath 'C:\path\to\vmstorage\obsd-test\base.vhdx' -NewVHDSizeBytes 50GB
Things that are missing / unclear so far:
- non-persistent HDD
- How does it know what the NAT Interface is and how does it perform if you move from wired to a wireless connection?
- don’t know right now how to provide the ISO Image for the DVD via
New-VM - quick tests using a Generation 2 VM didn’t work out as the ISO didn’t boot and the Hyper-V didn’t like miniroot62.fs as an ISO…