On Tuesday, 29.09.2015 at 17:09, Martin Lucina wrote: > In the spirit of "convention over configuration", there are no flags to > specify which console to use. The default is to use VGA unless the BIOS > indicates that no VGA is present *and* a serial port is available, in which > case the first serial port will be used, at 115200 baud, 8N1. > > I've verified that this approach works fine for local QEMU/KVM and Google > Compute Engine. Amazon EC2 users, please test this on a HVM instance...
I've just tested this on my Xen setup using a HVM domain, and unfortunately it won't work due to vga="none" support only landing in Xen 4.5. Given that I'm still running 4.4.1 (the version in Debian stable), the probability of Amazon/Rackspace/$CLOUD running 4.5 is exactly zero. While I'm not against adding a parameter to specify the console location, I'd hate to *require* the user to specify it. Any ideas?
