On Sun, 2020-09-20 at 14:41 +0200, daggs wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a vm to which I can access using virsh console vm1/ > I'd like in addition to be able to dump the serial of the vm in to a file on the host. > I've found this https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/virtualization_administration_guide/sub-section-libvirt-dom-xml-devices-host-interface but it seems that the first second example which might be suited to what I need doesn't work as I get an empty file: > here are my serial config for the vm: > > <serial type='pty'> > <source path='/dev/pts/2'/> > <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> > <model name='isa-serial'/> > </target> > <alias name='serial0'/> > </serial> > <serial type='file'> > <source path='/var/log/router-serial.log'/> > <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> > <model name='isa-serial'/> > </target> > <alias name='serial1'/> > </serial> > <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/2'> > <source path='/dev/pts/2'/> > <target type='serial' port='0'/> > <alias name='serial0'/> > </console> > > what might be wrong in the above? I believe what you're looking for is <serial type='pty'> <log file='/var/log/router-serial.log' append='on'/> </serial> <console type='pty'/> See https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#consoles-serial-parallel-channel-devices for more information about configuring serial devices. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
