Author: cperciva
Date: Thu Jun 9 13:58:31 2016
New Revision: 301732
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/301732
Log:
Switch from console="comconsole" to boot_multicons="YES" in EC2.
Amazon recently introduced an API for capturing screenshots of an
emulated VGA device; this commit makes that (somewhat) useful.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Modified:
head/release/tools/ec2.conf
Modified: head/release/tools/ec2.conf
==============================================================================
--- head/release/tools/ec2.conf Thu Jun 9 13:42:18 2016 (r301731)
+++ head/release/tools/ec2.conf Thu Jun 9 13:58:31 2016 (r301732)
@@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ vm_extra_pre_umount() {
echo 'autoboot_delay="-1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
echo 'beastie_disable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
- # The EC2 console is an emulated serial port.
- echo 'console="comconsole"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
+ # EC2 has two consoles: An emulated serial port ("system log"),
+ # which has been present since 2006; and a VGA console ("instance
+ # screenshot") which was introduced in 2016.
+ echo 'boot_multicons="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
# Some older EC2 hardware used a version of Xen with a bug in its
# emulated serial port. It is not clear if EC2 still has any such
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