berylenara

A rescue iso doesn’t work if you have encrypted disk. I thought everybody encrypted disk nowadays.

If you don’t have a live boot option you can also pull the disk and fix it on another machine, or put a different boot disk in the system entirely.

This is an interesting idea though, as long as the other machine has a different GPU then the system shouldn’t hijack it on startup.

You can probably also disable hardware virtualization extensions in the bios to break the VM so it doesn’t steal the graphics card.

AFAIK GPU passthrough is usually configured to detach the GPU from the host automatically on startup. So even if all VMs were broken, the GPU would still be detached. However as another commenter pointed out, it’s possible to detach it manually which might be safer against accidental lockouts.

If you want to lock down the web server and ssh behind a VPN, that’s where you can fuck up and lock yourself out though.

Fair enough. I’m considering a similar setup myself, so thanks

What do you use it for? You don’t get the privacy benefits when running it locally though right? Since your IP gives away your identity