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

[Jeremiah Jahn]

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 at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:25, Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah at goodinassociates.com> 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 at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Jeremiah Jahn" <jeremiah at goodinassociates.com>
>>>> Cc: users at 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 at goodinassociates.com>
>>>> 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 at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 15:57 , Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah at goodinassociates.com>
>>>>>> 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 at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:50 , Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah at goodinassociates.com>
>>>>>>>> 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/
>>>>>>>>
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