Re: Need access to OpenBSD environment to fix tests

[atcroft]

Why not create your own in a VM, using something like Hyper-V, QEMU, VMware, VirtualBox, Xen, (whatever virtualization platform you prefer), etc.? That way,

• you have complete control over the system (so you know what was installed, and any options given),
• you can modify it in any way you desire (for additional testing), and
• you have a reference system for later updates/changes.

As a bonus, someone else does not have to go through their organization's internal hoops of getting permission to allow an outsider access to a machine on their network (which, depending on the organization, may be considerable and extremely lengthy-no matter how trustworthy the individual in question).

[dmitri]

> Why not create your own in a VM?

Doing this would take longer than I'd wish to spend. Your points are all well taken, but really I don't want to spend hours installing an OS I have never installed or used before.

[marto]

Out of curiosity, on my work laptop (Thinkpad, Intel i5, 3GB RAM) the download of the ISO took <4 minutes (on fairly average broadband) and setting up the VM (including the additional downloads of the sets) took 7 minutes. Perhaps this would be time well spent.

[dmitri]

Perhaps. :) However, my machine is a three-year old "netbook," and running anything in a VM on it is supremely slow. I know, I tried.

Thanks for the pointer to devio.us. I've got myself a shell!