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Subject: Re: headerless guest under bhyve
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
>> How do I make it so I do not need to allocate a xterm to being the
>> console for a bhyve guest? (so far I have not been able to make it so
>> I can break the connection to the console and the guest doesn't crash)
>
>
> I have a screen session running and keep all the bhyves running in it ...
>
>  # screen -S bhyve
>  # cd /vms/system1
>  # ./vmrun.sh system1
>  # <detach or create new screen for another vm>
>
> I would prefer a serial console based scheme obviously where they could run
> completely headless.   Screen is nice because at least I have configurable
> scrollback and such.

Neel gave me a patch to try last night that fixed this