Reinstalling an openbsd.amsterdam VM from Scratch

I had to reinstall the openbsd.amsterdam VM. The nice thing about their setup is that even if the guest VM is inaccessible over SSH, you can SSH into the physical host and manage your VM with vmctl. For convenience, lets assume the VM is named vm99 on server88.openbsd.amsterdam and make sure you have access to the network info, that can be found at the introductory email. 1. Connect to the host 2. Stop the existing VM 3. Boot the OpenBSD installer 4. Install OpenBSD 5. Reboot 1. Connect to the host OpenBSD Amsterdam provides SSH access to the host on a high port. Details can be found in the introductory email. Using the same username and SSH key associated with the VM, access the base system and check the VM status: ssh -p 31415 atma@server88.openbsd.amsterdam vmctl status vm99 2. Stop the existing VM vmctl stop vm99 vmctl status vm99 Wait until its state is stopped. There is no need to delete or recreate the VM’s disk image. The OpenBSD installer can simply overwrite the existing…