Re: bootable cdrom for VPS anyone?

Hej,

> Am 10.12.2024 um 05:17 schrieb George Matsumura <[email protected]>:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I apologize for bumping such an old thread, but I hope this may be found
> useful.
> 
> On 12/18/23 22:47, [email protected] 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.

Actually, this does not patch clean on 10.99.12 as of this week because sys/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h has gotten a new definition:
#define WSDISPLAY_TYPE_VC6      68      /* Broadcom VideoCore 6 */

so this is an off-by-one.  I’ll ty that as sonn as the possibility arrives…
Cheers
	Oskar