On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:15:26PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Installer Debugging
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A bug was filed about headless installs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/487136
KVM Having problem In fedora 10 With no-gui
This prompted a new tip to be added to:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_virtualization_bugs#virt-install
In order to gain access to a serial console during the install,
you can use -x "console=ttyS0". Using a serial console combined
with a VNC install can be very useful for debugging e.g.
<code>--nographics -x "console=ttyS0 vnc".
Perhaps it might make sense for Fedora to use any available serial
console if there is no graphics card? Probably not, though, since you
have no idea whether anything is connected to the other end of the
serial line - on a bare-metal headless server, such a policy would
have us pointlessly driving unused serial lines.
Latest KVM has a new 'virtio console' PCI device present. We just
need to hook this upto libirt's <console> XML, to get an always
available PV console for all KVM guests without messing around
with serial ports. Just need to check Fedora guests have a config
/etc/event/hvc0 so the agetty is started on it out of the box.
Daniel
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