[virt-tools-list] osdict: fedora18 virtioconsole=True & seabios

[Cole Robinson]

On 01/10/2014 05:18 PM, John Morris wrote:
> I'm running an EL6 VM host with virt-manager, recent git.  Rest of tool
> chain is very close to EL6.
> 
> In osdict.py, the virtio console is turned on for fedora18.  Of course
> that requires adjustments to grub.conf when coming from a 'rhel6' or
> 'fedora17' config.  However, there is still no seabios console output.
> Is that something I need to adjust in virt-manager, or is it a
> limitation of EL6's seabios version (0.6.1.2)?
> 

virtio console is just the desktop friendly default, since with modern systemd
it will automatically launch getty in the guest, making 'virsh console
$vmname' Just Work for logging in.

In your case it sounds like you just want a traditional serial device: you can
get that by passing --console pty on the command line. Then your previous
config should keep working.

> Have the developers considered putting the os version configuration from
> osdict.py into a config file?
> 

We have begun work to transition to libosinfo for this data, which does allow
local overrides.

- Cole