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