Hi Martin, On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 3:18 PM Martin Sukany <mar...@sukany.cz> wrote: > I want to migrate OpenBSD 6.4 (stable) from VM to bare metal. I see, as > usual, two options: > > 1) install everything from scratch > 2) create some flashimage (I did such thing on Solaris few years ago) > and apply the image on new hw.
OpenBSD is in many ways just files on a disk and it's possible to migrate from a VM to bare metal with a dump, tarball, rsync or similar. This will also require a somewhat in-depth understanding of the boot process, and setting up the fstab properly and perhaps other OpenBSD specific things I do not recall at this time. It's certainly possible to get this understanding by reading the installer scripts. I've had to do this on FreeBSD and Linux to migrate between hosting providers w/o downtime. It's painful and filled with some trial and error . For simple setups often takes longer than a re-install. If downtime isn't a major concern just back-up the important things and re-install. As others have mentioned getting the list of installed packages is doable, and even mentioned int the FAQ: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgDup I hope this helps! -- Mitch
