On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 12:19:57PM +0100, Jonas Bechtel wrote:
Probably many providers without IPMI/KVM use Xen e.g. where OpenBSD won't work
at all so it may be not that groundbreaking missing link?
The primary application is dedicated servers, without virtualisation.
Every virtual server provider that I've tested had straightforward
HTML5-based console access.
Still, last I checked, OpenBSD ran fine on Xen. Maybe you are thinking
of a different hypervisor?
BTW 1: One could try kexec instead of qemu with an
actually-OpenBSD-pseudo-Linux kernel. [<-> crossposting with Janne
Johansson: this way qemu changes don't need to be maintained]
What happens when a fish and a penguin love each other very much?
BTW 2: What about an update mechanism for OpenBSD itself? E. g. if you
want to update 6.2 to 7.8 it would be neat to find an alternative way
to classic sysupgrade process (where you may need to adjust things when
first booting) for hosting providers without VNC access.
Solving this whole category of problems ("I need to do something that
requires pre-boot interactivity, but I don't have it") is why I started
this thread.
If we fix just the update mechanism, the whole thing is much less
useful.
