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From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] KVM test: Redirect the console to serial
 for all linux guests
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 12:43:50 -0300
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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 11:08 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Michael Goldish wrote:
> > On 04/26/2010 01:04 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >   
> >> As we have the ability to dump the content from serial console or use
> >> a session through it, we need to redirect the console to serial
> >> through unattended files to make use of it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-10.ks     |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-11.ks     |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-12.ks     |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-8.ks      |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-9.ks      |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/OpenSUSE-11.xml  |    1 +
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/RHEL-3-series.ks |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/RHEL-4-series.ks |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/RHEL-5-series.ks |    2 +-
> >>  client/tests/kvm/unattended/SLES-11.xml      |    1 +
> >>  10 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-10.ks b/client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-10.ks
> >> index 61e59d7..8628036 100644
> >> --- a/client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-10.ks
> >> +++ b/client/tests/kvm/unattended/Fedora-10.ks
> >> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ firewall --enabled --ssh
> >>  selinux --enforcing
> >>  timezone --utc America/New_York
> >>  firstboot --disable
> >> -bootloader --location=mbr
> >> +bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=ttyS0,115200"
> >>     
> >
> > I see no reason to completely silence the regular console.  We can let
> > some output go to the regular console as well as the serial one by using
> >
> > --append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0"
> >
> >   
> Yes, we should always keep the tty0. Thanks for pointing that.

It seems like we are opening possibilities on windows land - it seems
that there is an administration console running on windows' serial ports
by default:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785873%28WS.10%29.aspx

Need to check that out.

Excellent. Jason, the patchset looks mostly good, please implement the
suggestions pointed out on the comments and re-send it.