On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Todd Zullinger wrote: >> Michael DeHaan wrote: >> >>> What does everyone think about automatically adding console=ttyS0 to >>> KVM guests when --no-gfx is used? >>> >>> Currently this flag is meaningless for KVM and only works for Xen, >>> leaving KVM less than useful with no X (i.e. virsh shell does not >>> work). >>> >> >> Does it cause any harm to enable it for KVM even when --no-gfx isn't >> supplied? I added the ks options to start up ttyS0 to my profiles on >> a box where I was working remotely and didn't want/need the graphical >> tools. But, the remote side was at a friend's house where he could >> easily use virt-manager to view and access things graphically. >> >> Can the two co-exist or does setting console=ttyS0 preclude using >> virt-manager? (I don't think we tested with virt-manager since I >> enabled ttyS0 on the guests.) >> > > I believe it disables virt-manager usage, need to confirm. (Really > though it would be cool if virt-manager just opened up a text console in > those cases, wouldn't it?) > > Personally I'm a console person so I think having no graphics should be > the default, but I hate flip-flopping on options and syntax.
Here is how you please both camps. Add this to the kernel commandline: console=ttyS0 console=tty0 Note that the ordering is important for some reason and serial needs to be first. That works on real installs to send output to serial and a tty. I was surprised to see cobbler doesn't do this by default actually. Count this as another +1. -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
