Soren Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:04PM +0100, Lionel Porcheron wrote: > >> I'm looking at replacing some of my Xen instance with kvm. One of the >> thing I found usefull with Xen was the "xm console" commands which >> show a tty console. I did not find the same feature with KVM (unless I >> use virt-manager with vnc). Did I missed something or this feature is >> not in KVM? >> > > IIRC, the version in Intrepid supports this. You need to set up a serial > console and configure the guest to use it. > > http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole > > Soren is indeed correct, this does work - however you also need to setup the guest to present a console to serial [0]. KVM's tty is displayed as a VNC display, and Xen's is a pty. However, a serial console is arguably as good - and I quite like having the ability to have ssh->serial console, and the ability to VNC. You can use "screen" as a serial console client with "$ screen /dev/pts/3" (or whatever the serial is present as in your host).
[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto Kind Regards, Dave Walker -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
