On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 06:01:25PM +0300, Washington Odhiambo wrote:
> I have installed OpenBSD-7.8 in a Proxmox VM to run some tests.
> I am struggling for hours to get SSH (and other services) access into the
> VM working, but no dice.
>
> What could I be missing? Importantly, I need SSH access to work.
Just to eliminate the obvious: during installation, did you answer 'yes'
to the prompt about allowing SSH access?
As far as I can remember, the default setting is 'no', which means you can
only access the machine via the console.
Try a
$ rcctl ls on
and see if sshd turns up in the list.
if it does not, go ahead with
$ doas rcctl enable sshd
$ doas rcctl start sshd
assuming, that is, that you have configured doas for the purpose.
> Strangely, I even tried 'pfctl -d' and even that still does not let me
> connect to the VM via SSH, much as I can ping it's IP address.
hm. I would check ifconfig output to see if the interface is correctly configured.
Something silly like a wrong netmask could be the the problem here.
All the best,
Peter
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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