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OpenBSD/arm64 on Hetzner Cloud

Contributed by Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd on from the ARMing Puffy for the cloud dept.

Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) wrote a blogpost about running OpenBSD on the arm64-based cloudservers provided by Hetzner. For now, only -current will work, because the new viogpu(4) driver [on which we reported earlier] is needed.

Head on over to Frederic's blog for the full story!

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  1. By Chakl (chakl) chakl@syscall.de on

    Nice! Looking forward to 7.4-RELEASE, and going to order a VM. Thanks to all who made this possble!

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    1. By House Panther (housepanther) matt@goblackcat.com on

      Do you know if this made 7.4? I am eager to try out either a Hetzner VM or an Oracle Cloud Ampere VM. Thanks!

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      1. By House Panther (housepanther) matt@goblackcat.com on

        Answered my own question. Yes, it will be available.

  2. By Peter J. Philipp (pjp) nospam@delphinusdns.org on

    I have one of these, I'm running with this kernel:

    kern.version=OpenBSD 7.3-current (GENERIC.MP) #2241: Tue Aug 29 00:04:59 MDT 2023
    deraadt@arm64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/arm64/compile/GENERIC.MP

    Since then, there was someone who reported that it was broken. So I'm careful to upgrade, I don't have time until next week to look into this. What is nice about the hetzner instances is that you can build a private network behind a vps and make it a router. I have a windows server 2019 essentials behind the OpenBSD and it's firewalled and natted. xfreerdp is great to use with this.

    In early porting work for the mango pi I even used a qemu on the windows host to compile kernels, but that mostly died down when I put a starfive visionfive 2 to use.

    In regards to the vpn that hetzner allows one to set up I have never tried it out when a vps is in another location, my location is in falkenstein (falcon stone), they set up the tunnels which are layer 2, on the vio1 interface.

    You might be wondering why I use windows. Well it has to do with my dns work, come next year I'm porting it to windows so I got the server for it early.

    I've been a long lasting customer of hetzner for longer than 10 years, I also applied there once for a job but they didn't seem to think I was their right kind of person. It's ok, I still like being a customer there.

  3. By Janne Johansson (jj) jj@stacken.kth.se on http://www.inet6.se

    Also works on Oracle cloud where you can have one or two free ARM64 VMs.

    Same procedure, overwrite /dev/sda on the linux with install74.img, reboot and get yourself a VNC console to complete the installation.

    The free tier allows for up to two dual-core ARM64s with 12G ram each.

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    1. By House Panther (housepanther) matt@goblackcat.com on

      Sadly, I've been unable to create an Oracle VM on their Ampere platform. I constantly get out of capacity errors. :-(

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