libvirt users - May 2021 - Console of P2V?

> 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!

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!
>