[et-mgmt-tools] How to get virsh console working on KVM
David Huff
dhuff at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 19:05:09 UTC 2009
Rodrique Heron wrote:
> When consoling to my KVM guest, I'm not getting the expected result, which is to be placed on the login prompt, instead I get this:
>
> [root at N1-I-FKVM-01 ~]# virsh list
> Id Name State
> ----------------------------------
> 9 N1ICOB01 running
> 26 SPWALKTEST running
> 29 N1IASMGT01 running
>
> [root at N1-I-FKVM-01 ~]# virsh console 29
> Connected to domain N1IASMGT01
> Escape character is ^]
>
>
> I modified the /etc/inittab of the guest to include a ttyS0 terminal and I allowed it via /etc/securetty. What other steps are missing? I would especially like to get this working during the installation of the KVM guest, so that I don't have to resort to virt-manager.
>
> Thanks
Add "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200" to kernel parameters of guest.
-D
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