Gain terminal access to a microvm controlled by systemd

[RooSoft]

Firstly, THANK YOU for that awesome project... I am considering migrating everything to microVMs once I get a solid grasp of how it all works.

Is there any way to gain terminal access to a running microvm controlled by systemd?

Not a sockets expert, but I have noticed that /var/lib/microvms/myVM/control.socket file that's available once the myVM microVM is in function... can it be used to get into the terminal?

Been searching control.socket in this project and I can't find any info about this...

[RooSoft]

Also, is there a forum or chat room where microVM enthousiasts hang out?

[astro]

Hi! Thank you for your kind words.

Is there any way to gain terminal access to a running microvm controlled by systemd?

Not as is but there are a few possibilities:

• I just setup SSH.
• https://github.com/Mic92/vmsh is a very interesting project but it needs to be updated to catch up with the latest Linux kernel versions.
• We've had serial console setup for that. Search this project's git history for microvm-console. I dropped it because it was too cumbersome to keep across hypervisors but I am not fundamentally opposed to that feature.

Not a sockets expert, but I have noticed that /var/lib/microvms/myVM/control.socket file that's available once the myVM microVM is in function... can it be used to get into the terminal?

No, the socket controls the Hypervisor. We use it for clean shutdown.

Also, is there a forum or chat room where microVM enthousiasts hang out?

There's a Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#microvm.nix:envs.net

[RooSoft]

Thank you!

See ya in the matrix room...