Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> said: >> Is there a way to get GRUB2 and the kernel to run a "serial" console >> under KVM? > > So, I guess the people who replied didn't read - I tried ttyS0, and that > didn't work. > > I did figure out why that doesn't work: when setting up a new VM with > libvirt in F20, if you choose RHEL7 as the guest OS, it gets set up > differently than RHEL6. One difference is that it sets up a virtio > console, instead of a serial console. > > First, it doesn't look like GRUB2 can talk to a virtio console. > > Second, I guess I'm hitting a kernel bug, because the kernel should be > able to talk to a virtio console (i.e. hvc0). It certainly shouldn't > crash because I tried to use that. The device works after boot (I can > run a getty on it), it seems only the kernel can't talk to it directly > as a console. Any idea if pts's are set up? Also, is this of any help <http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Unable_to_connect_to_console_of_a_running_domain>? mark