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

[Aline Manera]

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!
>