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.


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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.

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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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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On 29/5/24 06:40, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

I've got a ProxMox V8.2.2 instance running now.  It boots the OpenVMS
V9.2-2 ISO .......

Is there a secret to getting the network device working under proxmox ?
I used e1000 as the device model but during bootup it sends the cpu
usage up to 100% and just freezes. Using other device models some will seemingly fail immediately and the bootup goes ahead but you end up with openvms running but with no network device available.

Have you seen anything like this happening before.

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On 6/6/2024 9:42 PM, Michael Brown wrote:

On 29/5/24 06:40, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

I've got a ProxMox V8.2.2 instance running now.  It boots the OpenVMS V9.2-2 ISO .......

Is there a secret to getting the network device working under proxmox ?
I used e1000 as the device model but during bootup it sends the cpu usage up to 100% and just freezes. Using other device models some will seemingly fail immediately and the bootup goes ahead but you end up with openvms running but with no network

device available.

Have you seen anything like this happening before.

Go back to using the e1000 device. After you create the VM, but before you boot it, edit the VM config file /etc/pve/qemu-server/<vid>.conf

Add "args: -machine hpet=off" if it's not already there. If it wasn't there, then that should fix the problem.

This is my current test config file:

pve011:/etc/pve/qemu-server# cat 100.conf
args: -machine hpet=off
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide2;sata0;sata1;net0
cores: 2
cpu: host
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,efitype=4m,size=4M
ide2: local:iso/X860922OE.ISO,media=cdrom,size=1517408K
machine: q35
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=8.1.5,ctime=1717891692
name: openvms-test
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:A5:FB:1A,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,tag=16
net1: e1000=BC:24:11:0D:4F:69,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
net2: e1000=BC:24:11:0C:52:86,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,tag=20
numa: 0
ostype: other
sata0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-2,discard=on,size=16G,ssd=1
sata1: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1,discard=on,size=16G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
serial0: socket
smbios1: uuid=1fa8bf23-cff3-4746-91cb-d9fed4ea99c5
sockets: 1
vmgenid: ce4c0615-9dc0-46e5-8f5c-5a4eca5b7647


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On 9/6/24 14:34, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

On 6/6/2024 9:42 PM, Michael Brown wrote:

On 29/5/24 06:40, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

I've got a ProxMox V8.2.2 instance running now.  It boots the OpenVMS
V9.2-2 ISO .......

Is there a secret to getting the network device working under proxmox ?

Go back to using the e1000 device.  After you create the VM, but before
you boot it, edit the VM config file /etc/pve/qemu-server/<vid>.conf

Add "args: -machine hpet=off" if it's not already there.  If it wasn't there, then that should fix the problem.

Yes! that was the secret. vms boots up now and is on the net. Thank you
muchly.

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