Hello Strahil, what are you trying to achieve with the Qemu Guest Agent ? is it quiescing during backups .>?
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 20:59, Kristjan Komloši <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 11:10 +0000, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am new to openBSD and I really like the idea. Sadly I do not have > > suitable hardware to run on , thus I use KVM and I would be happy if > > anyone hint me of a working solution for Qemu Guest Agent. > > Anything I dig up (via google searches) show up only suggestions , > > but nothing more.In openBSD 6.4 I successfully installed qemu (and > > thus the agent), but I can't understand how to get the device needed > > for communication with the host up and running. > > As I mainly know linux - I know that we need a kernel module that to > > be loaded and with combination of udev rules - the devices is created > > on the necessary location and with the correct rights.According to > > many google findings - openBSD doesn't support any more loadable > > kernel module support. > > I have tried to figure it out by myself, but I cannot find the > > necessary module needed, nor how to load it in a proper manner. > > Any hint is well appreciated. > > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov > > Kernel modules don't exist under OpenBSD to ensure security, so don't > go there. Communication with host is probably best done through the > serial console. Take a look at the boot.conf(8) manpage. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
