KVM pending of xen console

[Lionel Porcheron]

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Dave Walker a écrit :
> Soren Hansen wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:04PM +0100, Lionel Porcheron wrote:
>>   
>>> I'm looking at replacing some of my Xen instance with kvm. One of the
>>> thing I found usefull with Xen was the "xm console" commands which
>>> show a tty console. I did not find the same feature with KVM (unless I
>>> use virt-manager with vnc). Did I missed something or this feature is
>>> not in KVM?
>>>     
>> IIRC, the version in Intrepid supports this. You need to set up a serial
>> console and configure the guest to use it.
>>
>>    http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole
>>
>>   
> Soren is indeed correct, this does work - however you also need to setup
> the guest to present a console to serial [0].  KVM's tty is displayed as
> a VNC display, and Xen's is a pty.  However, a serial console is
> arguably as good - and I quite like having the ability to have
> ssh->serial console, and the ability to VNC. You can use "screen" as a
> serial console client with "$ screen /dev/pts/3" (or whatever the serial
> is present as in your host).
> 
> [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto
> 

Oh thanks, I was missing the whole picture and the screen hint! Thanks!
Soren, do you think it would be feasible to add the serial console
definition in xml file build with vmbuilder by default?

Cheers,

Lionel

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