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

On Apr 7, 2014, at 23:04 , Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; wrote: > 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. you're not supposed to need a hook under normal circumstances, when the functionality is useful enough it should be built into vdsm natively...well, that's in progress for this one for 3.4.1:) Thanks, michal > > 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 >>>>>