[virt-tools-list] virt-install console keys

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/24/2016 03:20 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 03/24/2016 03:17 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>> I think this may be a question about virsh or libvirt, but anyway ..
>>
>> When I do a command like:
>>
>> virt-install \
>>     --name=$tmpname \
>>     --ram=1024 \
>>     --os-type=linux --os-variant=$osvariant \
>>     --arch ppc64le --machine pseries \
>>     --initrd-inject=$(pwd)/preseed.cfg \
>>     --extra-args="auto console=tty0 console=hvc0" \
>>     --disk=$(pwd)/$output,size=4,format=raw \
>>     --serial pty \
>>     --location=http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/$dist/main/installer-ppc64el \
>>     --nographics \
>>     --noreboot
>>
>> It later fails with the instructions:
>>
>>   Additional details may be available in /var/log/syslog or on virtual
>>   console 4.
>>
>> which is great, but I can find no way to get to "virtual console 4",
>> and that's a problem because there's no further way to diagnose this
>> bug.
>>

Also that message is not coming from anywhere in the virt stack that I know
of, probably from ubuntu.

- Cole