Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:26:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bhyve console question Message-ID: <20130428124802.K97174@coco.macktronics.com> In-Reply-To: <517D5F9F.6030809@freebsd.org> References: <20130427154625.X29498@coco.macktronics.com> <517C4F9C.9020200@freebsd.org> <20130428083458.S95875@coco.macktronics.com> <517D5F9F.6030809@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Ahh, cool. I wasn't paying attention I guess: uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 at device 31.0 on pci0 uart2: console (9600,n,8,1) which maps to the bhyve argument given: '-S 31,uart,stdio' and subsequently the serial console getty on ttyu2. Nice. Thank you, It would be kind of cool to bind a guest's serial port to a named pipe on the host system (I think virtual box lets you do this too - an option when creating a guest serial port). This would make it easy to have each bhyve guest with serial console attached to a list of device files upon which we could attach a screen session to later if we wanted to login or look at the console. For now, I'll just spin up each vm guest within a separate screen window. Take care, Dan On Sun, 28 Apr 2013, Peter Grehan wrote: > HI Dan, > >> Yes, the current bhyve-manual has that as a step in the configuration >> (http://bhyve.org/bhyve-manual.txt) which I guess is the culprit. I >> guess I just didn't expect that side effect but admit to not spending >> much time thinking about it first :-) > > I think it was done that way since /dev/console will always work, whereas > the tty line to use changed at one point when we cut over from the ISA uart > device to the PCI uart device resulting in a different tty device being used. > However, it looks like we may switch back to using a PCI-ISA bridge device > and that will change things again :( > > For now, you can edit the stock /etc/ttys as follows: > > -ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > +ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > > later, > > Peter. >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20130428124802.K97174>