[Kimchi-devel] RFC: Add serial as a valid graphics type

Aline Manera alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 15 17:46:06 UTC 2014


Regarding your mockups: I don't think there is a way to enable/disable 
the text console. It will be always there.

On virt-manager you can choose which one to use (text or graphical) but 
as we talked on scrum meeting we can add a new option to handle the text 
console (if it is available).

On 10/15/2014 07:00 AM, Yu Xin Huo wrote:
> Design below, I prefer the 1st one.
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> I have tried to create 2 VMs today, one is created by kimchi, the 
> other is created by virt-manager.
> Looks like virt-manager by default enabled serial console.
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> On 10/14/2014 6:04 PM, Yu Xin Huo wrote:
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Troubleshooting_-Troubleshooting_with_serial_consoles.html
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>> 1. To enable the serial console, it needs configuration on guest OS.
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>> /        You must configure the virtualized operating system to 
>> output information to the virtual serial port.//
>> //        The serial port is called //|ttyS0|//on Linux or 
>> //|COM1|//on Windows./
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>>     It need to modify the |/boot/grub/grub.conf| file on guest OS and 
>> reboot guest.
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>>     So VM must have OS already installed, seems like it needs the 
>> guest to be running.
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>> 2. The serial console can be accessed with 'virsh console' or 'use 
>> |virt-manager| to display the virtual text console'.
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>>      So the target of this work item is to add a 'web command line 
>> console' in kimchi UI to access the 'serial console'?
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