I think you can setup KVM for remote control ... On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Peter Leber <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to build a test system based on OpenBSD 5.7 which updates > in an automated fashion. > The goal is to have a remotely located machine which runs OpenBSD 5.7 > and is constantly updated. While restarting the machine remotely via SSH > is perfectly fine to me, I do not want to access the machine locally in > order to interrupt the automatic reboot in order to trigger the manual > upgrading process. I'm fine with following -stable and -current alike. > > I recognize that there's m:tier's binary patching service > (https://stable.mtier.org), but the packages are signed > by m:tier rather than the OpenBSD project. While following m:tier's > binary patches is a good compromise to me, it's not a perfect solution. > I'm perfectly fine with running the -current flavour of OpenBSD feature- > and stability-wise, but I did not have the success of remotely triggering > a script, rebooting the machine and have an up and running updated > machine. > While I did find the autoinstall(8) feature, which, since 5.7, should be > able to trigger an automatic upgrade if the file /auto_upgrade.conf is > present, I did not see an effect in the bootup messages on the virtual > machine I'm using for testing things out. > Furthermore, I did find a tool named snap, aiming at making running > -current more enjoyable (see https://github.com/qbit/snap), but it does > also seem to be relying on the user to manually start the upgrading > process on system reboot, if I got everything correctly. > > Is there someone aware of a procedure which could help me solving my > problem? > I thank you very much in advance. > > Peter
