raby.sh - Installing OpenBSD on OVH's VPS 2016 KVM machines.
I've been thinking about running OpenBSD again for a while now, yesterday I had some inspiration and decided to try to boot it on OVH's VPS machines.
OVH doesn't have the best reputation regarding availability and support (both of which I confirmed in the past...), but they are cheap and they have a datacenter in Beauharnois, Qc, that's less than 50km from home.
They're only offering Linux distribution for their VPS SSD instances at the moment, but since the virtualzation technology is KVM, booting the OpenBSD ramdisk kernel (bsd.rd) and doing the installation is all that is needed to get a working OpenBSD machine.
That host must be running a Linux distribution. For my test, I used Ubuntu 14.04, but it doesn't really matter, what's needed is GRUB and most distros are probably using it.
Next, the bootloader configuration needs to be updated to let it know where it can find the OpenBSD kernel and how it can be boot it.
