From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Serial console's using kvm -serial ????? Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:08:46 -0500 Message-ID: <483C23FE.4070108@codemonkey.ws> References: <20080527145044.GA13556@netfirms.com> <20080527145416.GA13609@netfirms.com> <20080527145541.GA13642@netfirms.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Steve Shorter Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:50200 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756214AbYE0PIz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 11:08:55 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so2738510waf.23 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 08:08:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080527145541.GA13642@netfirms.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > What is the correct way to obtain serial consoles on > kvm instances.. > > kvm -serial ${SOME_DEV} > > What should SOME_DEV be and then how can I access the > serial console? Look in the QEMU docs, there are a lot of possible options. I imagine you probably want either stdio or you want to use the -nographic option. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > > I am on Ubuntu Hardy, and tried various things like ptmx, ttyS2 > etc but couldn't get anything to work. > > thanx - steve > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >