Hello,

trying serial console in 4.1.1 I have some problems.

I have not understood if it depends on my client, or the guest or oVirt...

My client is Fedora 25 updated

My guest is a CentOS 7.3 VM updated (my latest successful attempts were when in 7.2)

My oVirt is 4.1.1 (my latest successful attempts were when in 4.0.x)

Some tests

$ ssh -i .ssh/id_dsa.pub ovirt-vmconsole@ovmgr1 -p 2222

Available Serial Consoles:

00 c7service[2e571c77-bae1-4c1c-bf98-effaf9fed741]

01 c7testovn1[63818176-cfb5-4a00-912d-ce0e812be76c]

02 c7testovn2[f00c8f30-a658-4a18-bf85-3b523de93183]

03 dbatest6[633b58b6-5e99-491b-a312-0976d4e8d979]

04 nas4free[6b9013d1-1837-4b0f-aa34-c9130d4f1229]

05 raclab1[1775d180-288d-4116-af1e-d90b2989cb8a]

06 raclab2[852aa8b1-a3e2-4658-be91-0ab51b6b7260]

SELECT> 00

and it stays here without giving the os prompt.

In 7.3 guest I have VirtIO serial console enabled and this situation

[root@c7service ~]# cat /proc/cmdline

BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/cl-root ro rd.lvm.lv=cl/root rd.lvm.lv=cl/swap rhgb quiet console=ttyS0

[root@c7service ~]#

[root@c7service ~]# ps -ef|grep agetty

root 718 1 0 11:15 ttyS0 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --keep-baud 115200 38400 9600 ttyS0 vt220

root 1760 1541 0 11:29 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto agetty

[root@c7service ~]#

So it seems ok.

I have not understood the error I get connecting this way:

$ ssh -i .ssh/id_dsa.pub ovirt-vmconsole@ovmgr1 -p 2222 connect --vm-name c7service

ERROR: No pty support, please enable at client side

What is "client" in the error message, my Fedora 25..?

At engine side I have:

[root@ovmgr1 ovirt-engine]# systemctl status ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-sshd.service -l

● ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-sshd.service - oVirt VM Console SSH server daemon

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-sshd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)

Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-03-28 11:00:26 CEST; 33min ago

Main PID: 1117 (sshd)

CGroup: /system.slice/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-sshd.service

└─1117 /usr/sbin/sshd -f /usr/share/ovirt-vmconsole/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-sshd/sshd_config -D

Mar 28 11:19:44 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2779]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 34947 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:19:52 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2796]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 16456 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:19:53 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2808]: Received disconnect from 10.4.170.225: 11: disconnected by user

Mar 28 11:20:02 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2824]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 5769 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:20:14 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2855]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 52441 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:20:24 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2882]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 33724 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:20:24 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2894]: Received disconnect from 10.4.170.225: 11: disconnected by user

Mar 28 11:20:36 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2900]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 64049 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:21:26 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2955]: Accepted publickey for ovirt-vmconsole from 10.4.170.225 port 3521 ssh2: DSA 3d:d4:5b:94:b9:9e:4b:46:14:b2:4a:05:03:9b:05:d6

Mar 28 11:21:27 ovmgr1.mydomain sshd[2967]: Received disconnect from 10.4.170.225: 11: disconnected by user

Thanks,

Gianluca