[CentOS-devel] Anyone using the serial console from our Vagrant boxes?

[Karanbir Singh]

On 03/05/17 12:58, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The default boot parameters of our Vagrant images activate a serial
> console.  The problem is that VirtualBox doesn't enable a serial port by
> default, and our boxes hang if they really need to use the console, e.g.
> during relabeling[1] or during the initial configuration required for
> sealed VM templates (what I'm currently trying for Hyper-V support).
> 
> Is anyone using the serial console we provide?  If not, I can just
> remove the console=ttyS0 parameter from the kernel command line.
> Otherwise, a patch for Image Factory is trivial - I can just the set the
> port to enabled in the XML file, without the cable connected, and
> probably move console=tty0 on the last position, so it becomes the
> active console.
> 
> Libvirt and VMware don't cause this problem, because they either have a
> serial port by default, or pretend it's there if the guest tries to use
> it.  No idea if Hyper-V or Xen default to having a serial port.
> 
> I would like to fix this for version 1704, which should be released in
> the following days.
> 

the serial console setup is used by various virt stacks to deliver -any-
console interface. Its certainly used in the libvirt/kvm world quite a bit.


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