Hi Francesco, Quoting Francesco Poli (2022-02-26 00:35:01) > At least, it completes without any error. > And it generates a 'debian-unstable.qcow2' image that can boot, if I > test it with: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -serial > unix:/tmp/ttyS0,server,nowait -drive > "file=./debian-unstable.qcow2,cache=unsafe,if=virtio,index=0" > > I can even login as root (password-less!) in the graphical window that > QEMU shows! > > Now, I remember that you said I should test the serial console with > minicom on the /tmp/ttyS0 socket. > I typically use picocom for serial console connections. > Is there a way to make picocom connect to a UNIX socket? > > Maybe I should try after using socat, as suggested in this [howto]. > > [howto]: <https://www.schmut.com/cheat-sheets/unix-serial-howto> > > Or is there a better way?
I don't know about picocom. Either of the following should work:
$ minicom -D unix#/tmp/ttyS0
$ nc -U /tmp/ttyS0
$ socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/ttyS0
> However, it leaves a lot of "production scrap" within /dev/shm :
>
> $ du --si -s /dev/shm/.guestfs-1000/
> 755M /dev/shm/.guestfs-1000/
>
> More than 750 MB of "production scrap"!
>
> Why does guestfish do this?
I don't know and I don't have these files in my own $TMPDIR.
In any case, if it works for you now, maybe you can close this bug?
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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