libvirt users - Feb 2015 - way to see the bootmenu via serial?

Maybe this should go to the qemu mail list, but I have domains configured
to dump to serial. Works fine I see Grub menu/kernel messages and the like,
but the "bootmenu" listing only shows up over vnc. Is there a way to
have
that show up over serial?

I definitely can hit up the qemu mail list as well if inappropriate for here

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 03:32:02PM -0600, mail list
wrote:
> Maybe this should go to the qemu mail list, but I have domains configured
> to dump to serial. Works fine I see Grub menu/kernel messages and the like,
> but the "bootmenu" listing only shows up over vnc. Is there a way
to have
> that show up over serial?
> 
I believe
<bios useserial='yes'/>
is the option that makes this work.
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsOSBIOS

Jan

On 13.02.2015 09:23, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 03:32:02PM -0600, mail list wrote:
>> Maybe this should go to the qemu mail list, but I have domains
configured
>> to dump to serial. Works fine I see Grub menu/kernel messages and the
like,
>> but the "bootmenu" listing only shows up over vnc. Is there a
way to have
>> that show up over serial?
>>
> 
> I believe
> <bios useserial='yes'/>
> is the option that makes this work.
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsOSBIOS
Moreover, make sure you use a serial enabled BIOS, like sgabios [1].
Standard seabios doesn't support serial line (well, it was quite a while
ago that I've tested this and it didn't back then, maybe things have
changed since then).

Michal

1: https://code.google.com/p/sgabios/

thanks very much sir
I tried that earlier as well, should have mentioned, apologies for
forgetting to do so.
I just see nothing and then the grub menu shows up as usual

the vm is centos 6u5

I'm on ubu 14.04 for the host
1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.9 for libvirt-bin


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 03:32:02PM -0600, mail list wrote:
> > Maybe this should go to the qemu mail list, but I have domains
configured
> > to dump to serial. Works fine I see Grub menu/kernel messages and the
> like,
> > but the "bootmenu" listing only shows up over vnc. Is there
a way to have
> > that show up over serial?
> >
>
> I believe
> <bios useserial='yes'/>
> is the option that makes this work.
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsOSBIOS
>
> Jan
>