On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:01 PM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:07:54AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>>>> Sorry about the accidental bulky quoting! Boston public transit is still slow from storms, and I'm using my phone right now. >>>>> >>>>> Also, has Xen console access gotten any better for fully virtualized guests? I've just been forcibly reminded how awkward it was to access the Linux installation screens to manipulate kickstart setups. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I haven't had problems accessing the graphical console of PV or HVM guests. I'm usually using virt-viewer to use the VNC console. >>>> >>>> -- Pasi >>> >>> I was referring to the TTY text console, the one that allows >>> manipulation of boot options. It looks like it's still pretty awkward. >> >> What's awkward about it? When I've passed "serial=pty" in the HVM >> config file and run "xl console", everything seems to work pretty well >> for me. >> > > And playing with the grub settings. And making sure that the installer > correctly handles serial access, which tends to confuse the heck out > of anaconda, and has only gotten worse with the pointlessly and > insistently graphical installers in CentOS 7. > > I'm not blaming the CentOS team, this came from Fedora upstream to RHEL. Ah, right -- my primary hat is as Xen developer, so I thought you were complaining about something on the xen side, not on the installer side. :-) -George