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@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-28 21:20:18

Is there a trick to OpenBSD under XCPng? The ISO boots, gets to this, and panics. Maybe some setting I need to check on the VM configuration? #openbsd #xcp_ng

Panic screen attempting to install OpenBSD 7.9 in XCP-ng
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-05-24 03:31:50

First experiments on optimizing efficiency / usage of the microscope bench workstation went... Poorly.
The first, grander, idea was to grab a spare SSD, install xcp-ng on it, and use the box as a second VM server with the microscope software running in a guest with USB passthrough to the mouse, keyboard, joystick, camera, and stage.
This would let me push CI jobs to the extra CPU cores when it wasn't busy, as well as live-migrating VMs for critical services to prevent downtim…