Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:42:20 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-projects@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r277183 - projects/release-vmimage/release/tools Message-ID: <54B69C6C.8010706@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20150114164048.GK91178@hub.FreeBSD.org> References: <201501141523.t0EFNwF1046408@svn.freebsd.org> <54B69900.1050707@freebsd.org> <20150114164048.GK91178@hub.FreeBSD.org>
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Ah, OK. Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! -Nathan On 01/14/15 08:40, Glen Barber wrote: > I should have included that this is temporary. > > I'm using qemu over SSH to test the image builds. I plan on reverting > this before it gets merged to head. > > Glen > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 08:27:44AM -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> Is this a good idea? Do we know why there is a problem with VMs? If it is >> necessary, shouldn't this be some kind of default in the kernel rather than >> a hack in the release scripts? >> -Nathan >> >> On 01/14/15 07:23, Glen Barber wrote: >>> Author: gjb >>> Date: Wed Jan 14 15:23:58 2015 >>> New Revision: 277183 >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277183 >>> >>> Log: >>> Enable the textmode console by default for VM images, >>> since there is no way to tell if the environment will >>> be able to use the graphics-mode console. >>> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation >>> >>> Modified: >>> projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr >>> >>> Modified: projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr >>> ============================================================================== >>> --- projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr Wed Jan 14 14:50:31 2015 (r277182) >>> +++ projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr Wed Jan 14 15:23:58 2015 (r277183) >>> @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ vm_install_base() { >>> >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/fstab >>> fi >>> + # Set hw.vga.textmode=1, with the assumption that the hypervisor >>> + # will not be capable of using the graphics console mode. >>> + echo '# Comment the next line to enable graphical console mode' \ >>> + >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf >>> + echo 'hw.vga.textmode=1' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf >>> + >>> mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/dev >>> mount -t devfs devfs ${DESTDIR}/dev >>> chroot ${DESTDIR} /usr/bin/newaliases >>>
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