On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:51:33PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Currently I run my kvm VMs under screen

sounds like a PITA doing everything manually...but whatever works for you.

> and just use screen -r to get the console.

I strongly recommend switching to tmux.  I stuck with screen for many years,
been using it since the early 90s, but finally made the switch about a year
ago...finally got sick of screen's bugs, quirks, piss-poor unicode support,
and effective abandonment as an actively-developed project. it took me about
half an hour to configure it so that the transition was non-traumatic. after
a few days, i wouldn't even consider switching back, any more than i'd switch
back from mutt to elm.

As I did with screen, I've mapped tmux's escape key to ^K.  I rarely use that
for anything else but I use ^A all the time -- ^A is move to start of line
in bash/readline, an extremely stupid key for screen to hijack as its default
control prefix. tmux's default of ^B is better, but I've got used to ^K over
the years.  Unlearning that would be too painful.

> Virsh has some benefits, but so far it hasn't seemed worth the pain.

for just "virsh console", no not worth it. for everything else - virsh and
libvirt are definitely worth it.

craig

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