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

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Ah, missed this update. I am ALL seabios ALL the time except when using
efi. ;)
Will try the other you listed

thanks very much for this direction

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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/
>
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