This hasn’t happened to me yet but I was just thinking about it. Let’s say you have a server with an iGPU, and you use GPU passthrough to let VMs use the iGPU. And then one day the host’s ssh server breaks, maybe you did something stupid or there was a bad update. Are you fucked? How could you possibly recover, with no display and no SSH? The only thing I can think of is setting up serial access for emergencies like this, but I rarely hear about serial access nowadays so I wonder if there’s some other solution here.

  • MNByChoice
    9·
    1 day ago

    Serial is still a thing.
    Get a cheap video card.
    Or a usb to vga adapter.
    A server class system with BMC.
    Live CD.

    There are options.

    • berylenara@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      21·
      23 hours ago

      Serial is still a thing.

      Good to know 👍

      Get a cheap video card.

      I’d be tempted to just pass it through as well 😅

      Live CD.

      Doesn’t work if you have encrypted disk (nevermind I was wrong about this)

      Or a usb to vga adapter.

      A server class system with BMC.

      Interesting ideas, I’ll look into them thanks

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        Doesn’t work if you have encrypted disk

        this this because you are unable to provide the encryption password?