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

Wed May 3 15:08:11 UTC 2017
Patrick Lang <patrick.lang at hotmail.com>

It isn't enabled by default in Hyper-V. It would be easy for me to add though in Vagrant if needed. Let me know.

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> On May 3, 2017, at 4:58 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu <lpancescu at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> Laurențiu
> 
> [1] https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13213
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