Re: bootable cdrom for VPS anyone?

["George Matsumura" <gorg%gorgnet.net@localhost>]

Greetings,

I apologize for bumping such an old thread, but I hope this may be found
useful.

On 12/18/23 22:47, oskar%fessel.org@localhost 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