Re: [Kimchi-devel] RFC - New option 'Serial Console' in the template UI
On 24/03/2015 17:10, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote:
Hello everybody!
I'd like to hear from you if it would be nice to have a new option in
the Template UI to redirect the output to a serial console.
Today, there is a field called 'Graphics' with two options [VNC,
Spice]. What if we have [VNC, Spice, Serial Console (no-graphic)]?
A drawback is the need of an external tool (like virsh console) to be
able to take the console, as Kimchi doesn't provide one.
What do you think?
As Paulo said we have already started that discussion some time ago.
The problem was in identifying a stable web tool to render the serial
console on Kimchi using websockets.
The thread discussion:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/kimchi-devel/2014-October/008173.html
We can also try to go deeper in the Julien's suggestion
(https://github.com/chromium/hterm)
About the original proposal itself, I don't think serial console should
exclude the graphical console. We can have both simultaneously.
So from a backend perspective, we should change Kimchi to also create
the VM with both console types.
And on UI, we should add a new option to render the serial console when
available (as Kimchi must work with guests created by other tools).
Thank you!