OpenBSD 6.4: Installing a Seriously Underrated OS in a Virtual Machine
“Safety first” — that’s what they said.
Edit (May 19th, 2020): OpenBSD 6.7 has been released. Yes, the following guide works!
Edit (October 17th, 2019): Today, OpenBSD 6.6 has been released. The guide below is still valid if you want to try out this alternative open source operating system.
Edit (April 25th, 2019): Yesterday OpenBSD 6.5 has been released with lots of useful improvements (changelog). I went through my tutorial to see if this guide needed some polishing. It seems everything I wrote is still relevant; the installation process of OpenBSD 6.5 works just fine with this guide. Have fun!
Theo de Raadt and the other developers behind OpenBSD unveiled (pun intended) version 6.4 a few days ago (October 18th, 2018). It’s the 45th release and — like any other release before that — it’s stable, secure and fast.
OpenBSD is perfect for older computers. If you have hardware that is too slow (or too sacred) to be operated with Windows or MacOS, you could resurrect it by installing OpenBSD or a lightweight Linux distribution.
In this article I’ll cover the whole installation process of OpenBSD 6.4 plus the Xfce desktop on a virtual machine running on Solus (a Linux…
