On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 13:01 +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:24:23PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm coming to the game late... > > > > I run FreeBSD in qemu all the time, but I build images from source to test > > the boot loader and it's all serial and my test scripts are tuned to that. > > I rarely use the pre-built images, however. > > > > If there's ways that we can build images that work better than we're doing > > right now to make the experience better, like making sure we enable the > > dual console support for them... We're late in our release cycle, but if > > what we need to change is what I think we need to change, we still have > > time for it. > > > > In the mean time I'll read through wiki and see if there's anything > > obviously wrong... > > I would guess there aren't many people like me to prefer booting a VM > using console, though I agree that it'll be nice if we put something > into the prebuilt images like what's suggested by Ilya (and so far I > don't see anything bad with that): > > [root@freebsd ~]# cat /boot/loader.conf > boot_multicons="YES" > boot_serial="YES" > comconsole_speed="115200" > console="comconsole,vidconsole" > > Anyway, thanks for your work on either the wiki or the images, they > are really helpful to people like me.
We use the official qcow2 images for FreeBSD for libvirt/virt-tools CI[1] and not having serial console/ssh access by default is a bit annoying, as it requires the administrator/developer to log in using the graphical console, configure the guest OS according to [2], run an Ansible playbook which, among other things, will enable serial console access[3], and finally remove the graphical console. If official qcow2 images could have serial console access turned on by default, that would make the process a lot more convenient for us. Just another data point :) [1] https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ [2] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt-jenkins-ci/blob/master/guests/README.markdown#freebsd [3] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt-jenkins-ci/blob/master/guests/playbooks/update/tasks/bootloader.yml#L41-L51 -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
