[Info-vax] ProxMox/KVM Serial terminal via ssh/telnet - WAS: OpenVMS x86 and qemu/kvm - boot problems.

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 5/28/2024 5:58 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 28/05/2024 21:40, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> On 4/20/2023 1:33 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> Have you managed to get he serial console accessible over ssh? So far I have been stuck with the Virtual Machine builder serial console, which is pretty carp.
>>>
>>
>> I've got a ProxMox V8.2.2 instance running now.  It boots the OpenVMS V9.2-2 ISO but for the life of me I can't get ssh/telnet setup to the serial console.  The documentation for this is quite obtuse.  As with you I have the serial console connected in the ProxMox console but I want to be able to telnet or ssh to it from other places than where the web gui is running.
> 
> I never managed to get any serial terminal running, but I am on KVM/QEMU under Ubuntu - I don't know anything about Proxmox.
> 

ProxMox is based on KVM, but it's got cluster aware parts.  There is a distributed, shared file system that it interfaces to called Ceph (as do others).  The aim is to have shared virtual disks for VMSClusters with common shared drives.  Not sure if that's possible yet, but I think all the parts are there.

ProxMox - https://www.proxmox.com/en/
Ceph - https://ceph.io/en/

> I got a PuTTy instance running on the host, then issued:
> $ virsh console <VM_name>
> 
> That works well as a console.
> 
> When DECNET, TCP and SSH installed - my network is bridged to the host's second NIC, I has no problem using ssh from my Windoze workstation
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John H. Reinhardt