[libvirt-users] way to see the bootmenu via serial?

[Michal Privoznik]

On 13.02.2015 09:23, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 03:32:02PM -0600, mail list wrote:
>> Maybe this should go to the qemu mail list, but I have domains configured
>> to dump to serial. Works fine I see Grub menu/kernel messages and the like,
>> but the "bootmenu" listing only shows up over vnc. Is there a way to have
>> that show up over serial?
>>
> 
> I believe
> <bios useserial='yes'/>
> is the option that makes this work.
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsOSBIOS

Moreover, make sure you use a serial enabled BIOS, like sgabios [1].
Standard seabios doesn't support serial line (well, it was quite a while
ago that I've tested this and it didn't back then, maybe things have
changed since then).

Michal

1: https://code.google.com/p/sgabios/