Re: [libvirt] specifying -serial telnet: in XML

| > My kernel boot command line has 'console=ttyS0' option. Is there anything | > else I need to ensure 'telnet 127.0.0.1 port' displays the messages ? | | That setting should be what's required to make serial console work. Are | you sure you've got it set in the correct place of grub.conf for the | guest OS ? I have my guests configured using: | | "console=ttyS0 console=tty" | | whch makes messages go to the serial port and graphical console I am not using the grub.conf file in the guest. Instead, I am specifying the "console=ttyS0" with the <cmdline> tag <os> <type>hvm</type> <kernel>/home/suka/virtmcs/kernels/vmlinuz-ckpt</kernel> <initrd>/home/suka/virtmcs/kernels/initrd-ckpt.img</initrd> <cmdline>"ro debug root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0"</cmdline> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> I have the <console> stanza as: <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/3'> <source path='/dev/pts/3'/> <target port='0'/> </console> With this,if I add "console=tty" to the <cmdline> line, <cmdline>"ro debug root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 console=tty"</cmdline> or "console=tty0" <cmdline>"ro debug root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 console=tty0"</cmdline> the guest exits a few seconds after "virsh start". I don't see any useful messages in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/guest.log of /var/log/messages. If I remove the "console=tty" i.e go back to <os> stanza above, the guest boots fine and I can use the vnc (graphic console) but I don't see any messages on serial console. Thanks, Sukadev