On 07/16/2010 05:06 AM, Theo Band wrote: > It works for para-virtualized guests (with xen kernel) not for > fully-virtualized ones. For fully-virtualized guests, make sure the guest definition contains: <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </console> If you add this, you'll need to redefine the guest, then shut it down completely ("poweroff" the guest, not reboot). # virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/guest.xml Once a serial console is defined in the guest, set up grub. Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and replace the timeout, splashimage, and hiddenmenu lines with: timeout=5 serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=5 serial console Make sure all of the "kernel" lines contain a serial console arg: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-... ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0,115200 And finally make sure that /etc/inittab starts a getty on the serial console: s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100 The last three are the same steps you'd take to set up a machine with a physical serial console. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos