[Bug 1900852] [NEW] Remove uart1 connection from Vagrant boxes

[John Chittum]

Public bug reported:

In discussions on lp: 1874453, a user (haggai-eran) ran into an issue
with File::NULL being turned into an absolute path on a derivative image
rather than staying the Ruby handling of File::NULL.

In comment 54 during verification (https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-
images/+bug/1874453/comments/54), nginer tried disabling uart1
connection entirely. He noted that previously this did not work on
releases, however, in his current setup it did work.

This led to me (jchittum) investigating removing configuring uart1 in
CPC's base Vagrantfile (https://git.launchpad.net/livecd-rootfs/tree
/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/vagrant.binary#n149). An initial
test using the ubuntu/master branch of livecd-rootfs successfully
booted. I also tested a user's ability to enable and add a serial
debugging file and it worked.

I propose the removal of the entire `config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do
|vb|` stanza from the base Vagrantfile in Groovy and newer images, with
further testing needed for possible SRU.

** Affects: cloud-images
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: John Chittum (jchittum)
         Status: New

** Affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: John Chittum (jchittum)
         Status: New

** Changed in: cloud-images
     Assignee: (unassigned) => John Chittum (jchittum)

** Also affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => John Chittum (jchittum)

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Title:
  Remove uart1 connection from Vagrant boxes

Status in cloud-images:
  New
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In discussions on lp: 1874453, a user (haggai-eran) ran into an issue
  with File::NULL being turned into an absolute path on a derivative
  image rather than staying the Ruby handling of File::NULL.

  In comment 54 during verification (https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-
  images/+bug/1874453/comments/54), nginer tried disabling uart1
  connection entirely. He noted that previously this did not work on
  releases, however, in his current setup it did work.

  This led to me (jchittum) investigating removing configuring uart1 in
  CPC's base Vagrantfile (https://git.launchpad.net/livecd-rootfs/tree
  /live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/vagrant.binary#n149). An initial
  test using the ubuntu/master branch of livecd-rootfs successfully
  booted. I also tested a user's ability to enable and add a serial
  debugging file and it worked.

  I propose the removal of the entire `config.vm.provider "virtualbox"
  do |vb|` stanza from the base Vagrantfile in Groovy and newer images,
  with further testing needed for possible SRU.

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