[Kimchi-devel] RFC - New option 'Serial Console' in the template UI

[Kevin Zander]

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 17:10 -0300, 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?
> 
> Thank you!
> 

I would love an option like this. Typically when I need to watch the
boot sequence I use the console much more often than VNC. To be able to
see all the output in virsh console would be very helpful.