The cloud images should log more on the serial console

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 11/21/2013 09:30 AM, Attila Fazekas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have noticed two nits related to the console logging of the cloud images,
> and on other related to the cfn-tools.
> 
> - When I boot up the f20 cloud image in openstack the log messages from the cloud-init 
>   is printed to the vnc console, but not visible on the serial console.
>   It also messes up the login prompt on the vnc console.
> 
>   In this case the serial console logging is more practical in my opinion.
>  
>   For example If you need to troubleshoot metadata passing+login issues, 
>   parsing the serial console output is easier than OCR-ing on the vnc/spcie console.

Yeah.

This was previously brought this up on this list, but we couldn't bring to a proper
logical conclusion :(

  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2013-April/002371.html

As of now,a /second/ console device (ttyS1) needs to be created, configure something to
run on this new console --
http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/openstack/serial-console-test.txt

> 
> - The kick-start should log the %post related issues to the serial console,
>   a macro argument like --log=/dev/console might be helpful,
>   especially if you build the images inside openstack.
> 
> 
> - AFAIK the /usr/bin/cfn-create-aws-symlinks should be called 
>   as part of the image build process in order to create the symbolic links
>   in the /opt/aws/bin/.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Attila
> 
> PS.: Now the rootfs is resize is working :)
> I will try to run devstack on the f20 images soon.
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/kashyap