FreeBSD and OpenBSD in Hyper-V - First Attempts


So I wanted to try out the  new FreeBSD 13.1. Rather than installing it onto a physical computer, I decided to try creating a virtual machine in Hyper-V. 

Hyper-V is a Microsoft product, and it was all I am able to use in the work environment that I am in. In a previous experiment I was able to create a Linux Mint virtual machine in Hyper-V with no problems. 

However, I did encounter problems setting up FreeBSD 13.1 in Hyper-V. I eventually gave-up on getting FreeBSD 13.1 to work in Hyper-V. I tried a few different ideas, but I was never able to get X-Windows to recognize the keyboard. The keyboard worked fine to type in startx, but once X started, the keyboard wouldn't work. 

It was a little disappointing not being able to get FreeBSD working in Hyper-V, but alas, some times such things happen.


To stay within the BSD family, I decided to try out OpenBSD. I had very little knowledge of OpenBSD, but I decided to get it a try in Hyper-V.

Unlike FreeBSD 13.1, X Windows inside OpenBSD 7.1 was able to recognize both mouse and keyboard. This article is actually being created on OpenBSD 7.1 in X using the Gnome window manager and default web browser. 

I did encounter a problem in OpenBSD, however. When creating the virtual disk, I used a 20GB non-expanding, static drive. I figured 20GB would be enough, but I discovered that it filled up when trying to install the gnome window manager files. So I deleted the 20GB and created a 30GB drive, but I ran into the same issue. At least with a 30GB drive most of the Gnome software installed and X was functional. Installing FireFox failed as the pkg installer ran out of disk space. 

During the installation process, I had the OpenBSD installer automatically allocate the disk drive, so on my next attempt, I may do a manual allocation with most of the drive being allocated to root and a small amount to a swap file. 

A special thanks to Life, Home and my Linux Journeys on Youtube and his video OpenBSD 7.0 With The Gnome 40-4 Desktop New Release New Results Dec. 2021. It helped me out with setting up Gnome in OpenBSD.

More to come.


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