Virsh start --console somw-guest luks workaround?

[Frank Murphy]

Virsh start --console some-guest.

I can the the boot up.
But the ability to input
a luks password.
Doesn't present itself.

I have to open a concurrent
Virt-Manager window
to enter the password.



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Regards
FRank

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 06:07:28PM +0000, FRank Murphy wrote:
>  Virsh start --console some-guest.
>  
>  I can the the boot up.
>  But the ability to input
>  a luks password.
>  Doesn't present itself.
>  
>  I have to open a concurrent
>  Virt-Manager window
>  to enter the password. 
It sounds like luks is prompting for a password on the OS primary console
and your primary console is the graphical console, not the serial console.

To switch them around you'd need to edit grub.conf in the guest OS and
set  'console=tty console=ttyS0' (the last one specified is used as the
primary console)

Regards,
Daniel
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[Frank Murphy]

On 13/02/12 18:14, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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>  It sounds like luks is prompting for a password on the OS primary console
>  and your primary console is the graphical console, not the serial console.
>
>  To switch them around you'd need to edit grub.conf in the guest OS and
>  set  'console=tty console=ttyS0' (the last one specified is used as the
>  primary console) 
Thanks for that Daniel.

>  Regards,
>  Daniel 

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Regards
FRank