[CentOS-virt] Xen vs. KVM console

Mon Oct 26 15:36:57 UTC 2009
Eric Searcy <emsearcy at gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
> Is there a way to configure the serial console in such a way that I don't
> lose a part of the functionality of the vnc console?

You can specify multiple "console=" kernel cmdline params.  On my
machines with out-of-band serial, I have the console on both the first
terminal and the serial port like this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro root=/dev/lvm_main/dom0_root
console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200

You should be able to do something similar with "console=tty0 console=ttyS0"

Eric