PR #58681 reclassification (was: Re: bootable cdrom for VPS anyone?)

Hej there,

is there a way to expedite implementation of this PR?
This is classified as „non-critical“ and low priority.
But for me it looks more like medium or even high priority and it is indeed serious.
Without a viogpu netbsd cannot be installed or properly repaired/maintained on hosting services thet do not offer a real serial remote console, only vnc style consoles.
Prominent example is netcup.de <http://netcup.de/>. 

I could not find a way to bump this on gnats, so please, would someone just incorporate that code into -curent and upcoming releases?
I am under the assumption that vio is supposed to be generic, given the recent changes in the config files.  Since I do not know wether this change has an effect on other architectures that aarch64, that should be considered.  I compiled 10.99.14 for amd64 which seems ok, but I do not run that architecture on kvm systems other than netbsd xen…

Cheers
	Oskar

> 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.
> 
> 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