Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console

that seems silly. Seems like the kinda thing that would be a nice feature to have in the webadmin stuff. esp if you have 100's of hosts. oh well, thanks for the help.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > >> On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; wrote: >> >> And just to verify... All hooking scripts have to be placed on each >> host by hand? > > Yes > >> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon >> <asegurap(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; >>>> To: "Jeremiah Jahn" <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; >>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org >>>> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:31:11 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [Users] how do you connect to a host's serial console >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 16:23 , Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> thx, So dumb question at this point. I'm in the process of moving from >>>>> virt-manager to ovirt. virsh has an edit domain function, or I can >>>>> edit the xml by hand. I'm able to locate the xml on the host, but >>>>> obviously if I edit it by hand it will be replaced by vdsm. I'm having >>>>> a hell of a time trying to find the xml on the engine, so that I can >>>>> try modifying the xml to add a serial console. Based on that code >>>>> that's all that's really going on with that patch. So I'd think I can >>>>> wing it by modifying the db or xml directly. Just not sure where to >>>>> go to do so. I'm guessing I could go into vm_device and replace >>>>> device='virtio-serial' with 'serial' but that seems to easy. Any >>>>> pointers you've got on how the xml is stored or produced would be >>>>> great. >>>> >>>> It's a bit more complicated than that....there's no XML stored in the backend. >>>> You'd be better off applying the patch over and compile yourself:) >>>> The supported way of how to amend the libvirt XML is via VDSM hooks. You need >>>> to intercept the created XML and add whatever is needed, see >>>> http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks, some of the examples can be used as a base >>>> for what you're trying to do... >>> >>> Yup, before_vm_start before_vm_migrate should allow you to do what you want. >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> michal >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Michal Skrivanek >>>>> <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> So do you think this is a 3.5 thing or a 3.4.1 thing? It's exactly >>>>>>> what I need, just curious how long I'll have to wait. I know this is >>>>>>> every developers favorite question. >>>>>> >>>>>> one needs to nag Vinzenz frequently enough....:-D >>>>>> >>>>>> ....but should be 3.4.1 >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> michal >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michal Skrivanek >>>>>>> <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I just can't seem to figure this out. I've enabled 'VirtIO Console >>>>>>>>> Device' yet I can't seem to find anyplace that will let me get there. >>>>>>>>> If I go to virsh on the host and try ttyconsoe that doesn't work >>>>>>>>> either. thanks for any help. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Does not work. Pending this[1] patch to get in. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> michal >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25979/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Users mailing list >>>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>>>