Hej there, is there a way to expedite implementation of this PR? This is classified as „non-critical“ and low priority. But for me it looks more like medium or even high priority and it is indeed serious. Without a viogpu netbsd cannot be installed or properly repaired/maintained on hosting services thet do not offer a real serial remote console, only vnc style consoles. Prominent example is netcup.de <http://netcup.de/>.
I could not find a way to bump this on gnats, so please, would someone just
incorporate that code into -curent and upcoming releases?
I am under the assumption that vio is supposed to be generic, given the recent
changes in the config files. Since I do not know wether this change has an
effect on other architectures that aarch64, that should be considered. I
compiled 10.99.14 for amd64 which seems ok, but I do not run that architecture
on kvm systems other than netbsd xen…
Cheers
Oskar
> Am 10.12.2024 um 05:17 schrieb George Matsumura <g...@gorgnet.net>:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I apologize for bumping such an old thread, but I hope this may be found
> useful.
>
> On 12/18/23 22:47, os...@fessel.org wrote:
>> netcup support tinkered around with the images i sent them and came to the
>> same > conclusion that Lloyd suggested in a private conversation: the vm
>> expects kernel > messages and in effect any interaction with the console
>> using graphics calls to the > gpu instead of just a plain text console.
>> There is no plan on implementing that, > currently. And i think, we don't
>> plan to implement console over GPU, right?
>
> The wscons driver for the virtio-gpu device ported in this PR should allow
> console interaction in your case:
>
> https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=58681
>
> I would think the patch included in the PR should apply to the 10.0 sources.
>
> Without console access, it is possible you could take an approach similar to
> the one detailed here, assuming netcup has something analagous to Hetzner's
> rescue mode (or another means of accessing the root disk from another OS):
>
> https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1262-howto-run-netbsd-on-hetzner-cloud
>
> Regards,
> George
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