Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Print only serial output to the terminal

[Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 19:45 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On 08/10/2011 09:34 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >>> This patch changes the serial device to print only auxiliary output to
> >>> the
> >>> terminal.
> >>>
> >>> Doing so prevents printing output which the guest kernel never
> >>> intended us
> >>> to print and by printing it we wrote junk to the users terminal.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> This doesn't seem to work for me. As soon as we switch to userspace, I
> >> don't get any output from serial console.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This works for. Pekka, did you enable something like:
> >
> >   T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
> >
> > in guest's /etc/inittab.
> 
> No I didn't but that's not really a solution to the problem. We can't
> expect people to configure guest userspace for something as basic as
> console.

I tested it again with /bin/sh boot, and it still works fine here.

Something is fishy in your kernel :)

-- 

Sasha.