On 01/11/2014 01:31 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 01/10/2014 05:18 PM, John Morris wrote: >> I'm running an EL6 VM host with virt-manager, recent git. Rest of tool >> chain is very close to EL6. >> >> In osdict.py, the virtio console is turned on for fedora18. Of course >> that requires adjustments to grub.conf when coming from a 'rhel6' or >> 'fedora17' config. However, there is still no seabios console output. >> Is that something I need to adjust in virt-manager, or is it a >> limitation of EL6's seabios version (0.6.1.2)? >> > > virtio console is just the desktop friendly default, since with modern systemd > it will automatically launch getty in the guest, making 'virsh console > $vmname' Just Work for logging in. That sounds great. > In your case it sounds like you just want a traditional serial device: you can > get that by passing --console pty on the command line. Then your previous > config should keep working. My interest in seabios stems from the gPXE option. I feel like I'm entering the realm of the pedantic here, sorry, but it would be nice to set the VM config once, and then after 'virsh start --console $vmname' have the option of booting either the OS or a PXE environment with the default settings. So, are you recommending a traditional serial device because seabios doesn't know how to handle virtio consoles? >> Have the developers considered putting the os version configuration from >> osdict.py into a config file? >> > > We have begun work to transition to libosinfo for this data, which does allow > local overrides. Great! John > > - Cole > _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
