Ouellette on Miscellany: 2022

29 Dec 2022

Installing OpenBSD on OVHcloud VPS

I have used OpenBSD in numerous core capacities since the late 90s. I appreciate the OpenBSD Project Goals. The documentation is top notch. The software almost always works as expected, and it gets fixed immediately by the project developers when problems are discovered.

OpenBSD
Free - Functional - Secure

OpenBSD has also remained very niche over my 2+ decades of usage. OpenBSD is rarely offered as an install option by virtual private server (VPS) providers. Unfortunately this includes OVHcloud, my current choice for most of my server hosting needs.

Fortunately, the lack of an OpenBSD install image is not an absolute bar to running it as a guest OS on the OVHcloud VPS service.

Keep reading to learn how to install OpenBSD on the OVHcloud VPS service!

Short Bio

I am a Métis person born and raised in the Métis Nation Homeland, in what is now generally known as the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2001, I married Camelot Lam Kwai Yu, at the time a visiting student from Hong Kong. She has since become a Canadian citizen and now goes by Cammy Yu Ouellette. We have lived in Vancouver since 2014. Before that, we lived together in Saskatoon. We also lived for a few years in Regina.

I am a lawyer called to the bar in British Columbia in 2015. My alma mater is the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to attending law school, I was employed in information technology for over 15 years, ending that career as the Director of IT for the Métis Nation - Saskatchewan (August 2010).

This blog is my sporadic outlet for wide-ranging interests, including computer technology, STEM, the common law, and politics. And food and drink. Cammy has developed me into a bit of a foodie.

Ideas coming off the top of my head can be found on Twitter (@BreenOuellette).

I recognize that I live within territories stolen from the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, and it is incumbent on the Crown to make fair and just reparations for the state's land theft, its ongoing illegal profits originating from that theft, and its crimes against humanity committed in the pursuit of those profits.