Both GRUB and the FreeBSD bootloader need some tweaking to make sure the OS will display boot messages and provide a login prompt on the serial console, which is useful when SSH access can't be used for whatever reason. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> --- guests/tasks/base.yml | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/guests/tasks/base.yml b/guests/tasks/base.yml index a9066e4..db805b8 100644 --- a/guests/tasks/base.yml +++ b/guests/tasks/base.yml @@ -115,3 +115,53 @@ line: 'PermitRootLogin without-password' state: present backup: yes + +- name: Look for GRUB configuration + stat: + path: /etc/default/grub + register: grubdefault + +- name: Look for GRUB configuration + stat: + path: /boot/grub/grub.cfg + register: grubcfg + +- name: Look for GRUB configuration + stat: + path: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg + register: grub2cfg + +- name: Configure GRUB + lineinfile: + path: /etc/default/grub + regexp: '^{{ item.key }}=.*$' + line: '{{ item.key }}="{{ item.value }}"' + backup: yes + with_items: + - { key: 'GRUB_TIMEOUT', value: '1' } + - { key: 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT', value: 'console=ttyS0' } + - { key: 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX', value: 'console=ttyS0' } + - { key: 'GRUB_TERMINAL', value: 'serial' } + - { key: 'GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND', value: 'serial' } + when: + - grubdefault.stat.exists + +- name: Apply GRUB configuration + command: 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' + when: + - grubcfg.stat.exists + +- name: Apply GRUB configuration + command: 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' + when: + - grub2cfg.stat.exists + +- name: Configure the FreeBSD bootloader + lineinfile: + path: /boot/loader.conf + regexp: '^console=.*$' + line: 'console="comconsole"' + create: yes + backup: yes + when: + - os_name == 'FreeBSD' -- 2.13.6 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list