I generally use GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8" and redo grub.cfg (i.e. update-grub, grub2-mkconfig) -wk On 5/22/2021 2:49 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
On 22.05.21 18:52, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: ... apologies if this isn't quite the right list, I tried to get the right one. But, my problem: I'm firing up a Centos 6.5 box > with virt-install, [...] and it boots fine, etc., etc., but I can't get to the console except through vnc; "virsh console" just shows a blank screen. 1. I think this is absolutely the right list for your issue
Yay. :-)
2. is it really blank? or something like
Connected to domain '[domain]' Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ])
Okay, it *does* say those things -- but that's all it says. <CR> gets me nowhere, as opposed to the other KVM hosts we have running.
3. If I am not mistaken the guest needs to be configured in a certain way for virsh console [domain] to work. I can't say how though
Hmmm... well, if anyone knows, I'm all ears.
Thanks for the reply!