Re: Remote serial console for BHyve VM?

2014-01-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/12/14, 5:13 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, I am working with Sean Bruno to set up some BHyve VM's. Right now, the vmrun.sh script tells BHyve to direct the serial console to stdout. Best solution for a permanent

Re: Remote serial console for BHyve VM?

2014-01-11 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Peter Grehan gre...@freebsd.org wrote: One way is to use the cloneable null-modem driver, nmdm(4). Others have used tmux for this, but I'll give a quick overview of the former. kldload nmdm.ko before starting VMs, e.g. at boottime or in rc.conf's kld_list

Remote serial console for BHyve VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I am working with Sean Bruno to set up some BHyve VM's. Right now, the vmrun.sh script tells BHyve to direct the serial console to stdout. If I want to have the VM's start via an rc.d script, and have the VM be headless, what is the best way to have the VM console still be accessible? Has

Re: Remote serial console for BHyve VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Craig, I am working with Sean Bruno to set up some BHyve VM's. Great ! If I want to have the VM's start via an rc.d script, and have the VM be headless, what is the best way to have the VM console still be accessible? Has anyone done something like use netcat to direct the BHyve stdio