On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 06:01:25PM +0300, Washington Odhiambo wrote: > I have installed OpenBSD-7.8 in a Proxmox VM to run some tests. > I am struggling for hours to get SSH (and other services) access into the > VM working, but no dice. > > What could I be missing? Importantly, I need SSH access to work.
Just to eliminate the obvious: during installation, did you answer 'yes' to the prompt about allowing SSH access? As far as I can remember, the default setting is 'no', which means you can only access the machine via the console. Try a $ rcctl ls on and see if sshd turns up in the list. if it does not, go ahead with $ doas rcctl enable sshd $ doas rcctl start sshd assuming, that is, that you have configured doas for the purpose. > Strangely, I even tried 'pfctl -d' and even that still does not let me > connect to the VM via SSH, much as I can ping it's IP address. hm. I would check ifconfig output to see if the interface is correctly configured. Something silly like a wrong netmask could be the the problem here. All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
