I have been coming closer to what I want (at least for the installation process) using this now sudo virt-install --name=my_domain --ram=512 --vcpus=1 \ --location=/path/to/ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso \ --disk /path/to/vm.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=32 \ --network bridge:br0 \ --os-type=linux \ --nographics \ --extra-args='console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' I get a console view of the VM in the hosts console and can attend and guide the installation process as hoped for. I guess --extra-args='console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' is what enables this. This seems not to be persisting though. After the post-installation's reboot I am at the beginning again Connected to domain ubn1604 Escape character is ^] and the '--extra-args' are not supported by 'virsh console' so, is there any way to get the 'console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' up again after a reboot? I tried virsh console --devname 'console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' [my_domain] > On September 1, 2016 at 1:31 PM Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:11:38AM +0800, vrms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > wanted to follow up on that part (thanks about all comment suggestion regarding virt-viewer and vcn, etc. I will test them as well but would prefer the 'console way' if possible > > > > On August 29, 2016 at 2:44 PM Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > * When you are connected you don't see anything because the VM doesn't > > > have console properly set up, I'd guess. > > > > the xml file of my machines (all of them actually) have the below in the 'console' section. > > > > ... > > > > > > > > ... > > > > Is it this has to be adjusted in order to 'properly set up the console' ? > > any pointers what to put here? tried 'bash' for 'type' but that didn't work > > > > best ...Gunnar > > This is fine, there is no need to do anything here. As I said, the only > thing you need to do is convince the guest kernel to use that ttyS0 as a > console (by appending console=ttyS0 as a kernel cmdline parameter). > Details on how to do that are explained in my previous mail. > > Also, there is no need to guess parts of the configuration, we have a > documentation for the XML [1], as well as bunch of other things [2] and > working man pages. > > Martin > > [1] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html > [2] https://libvirt.org/docs.html _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
