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Michael DeHaan 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.)
|>
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| 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.
|
| --Michael
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You can get at the serial console via virt-manager, under View -> Serial
Console. It just pops up a text console.
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John Eckersberg
IT Engineering Support
Red Hat, Inc.
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