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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24.05.21 03:12, W wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:f6e0a7a6-679d-da5a-be50-ddc3df2cc2bb@pixelgate.net">well
libvirt has to know about the serial port and attach it to the
console.
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do you have something like this in your XML file?
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<font color="#a01414"><serial type='pty'>
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<source path='/dev/pts/0'/>
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<target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
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<model name='isa-serial'/>
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</target>
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<alias name='serial0'/>
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</serial>
</font><br>
<console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'>
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<source path='/dev/pts/0'/>
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<target type='serial' port='0'/>
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<alias name='serial0'/>
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</console>
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no, I have:<br>
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<serial type='pty'><br>
<target type='isa-serial' port='0'><br>
<model name='isa-serial'/><br>
</target><br>
</serial><br>
<console type='pty'><br>
<target type='serial' port='0'/><br>
</console><br>
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I can edit this with <b>virsh edit [domain]</b> but the get the
same results as before. <br>
When I look into the file thereafter, all edits are gone even though
I got a success message with the editing <br>
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cite="mid:f6e0a7a6-679d-da5a-be50-ddc3df2cc2bb@pixelgate.net">
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On 5/23/2021 12:52 AM, vrms wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">hi William
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On 22.05.21 23:59, William wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I generally use
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200n8"
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and redo grub.cfg (i.e. update-grub, grub2-mkconfig)
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thanks for the pointer.
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I literally ran in the guests commandline
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200n8"
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sudo update-grub
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which did change anything to the behavior on the hosts cli
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Connected to domain '[domain]'
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Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ])
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and then nothing
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so ... what is the error I am making?
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<blockquote type="cite">On 5/22/2021 2:49 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio
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<blockquote type="cite">On 22.05.21 18:52, Ken D'Ambrosio
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... apologies if this isn't quite the right list, I tried
to get the
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right one.
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But, my problem: I'm firing up a Centos 6.5 box > with
virt-install,
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[...] and
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it boots fine, etc., etc., but I can't get to the console
except
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through vnc;
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"virsh console" just shows a blank screen.
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1. I think this is absolutely the right list for your
issue
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Yay. :-)
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<blockquote type="cite">2. is it really blank? or something
like
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Connected to domain '[domain]'
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Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ])
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Okay, it *does* say those things -- but that's all it says.
<CR> gets
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me nowhere, as opposed to the other KVM hosts we have
running.
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<blockquote type="cite">3. If I am not mistaken the guest
needs to be configured in a
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certain way for
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virsh console [domain] to work. I can't say how though
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Hmmm... well, if anyone knows, I'm all ears.
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Thanks for the reply!
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