------- Comment From [email protected] 2015-12-18 10:30 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #17)
> The proposed workaround from the bug description, however, is not viable:
>
> When Ubuntu detects a graphical adapter on Power, it should enable the
> graphical installer.

This is what is NOT happening, currently. From dmesg, I got the
following kernel command line:

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/mapper/ibmpkvm_vg_root-
ibmpkvm_lv_system ro console=tty0 console=hvc0 crashkernel=1024M
rd.retry=720

As Ubuntu is specifying console=hvc0 as the last console argument in the
kernel command line, the installer is always booting on the serial
console, no matter if a graphical adapter is present or not.

>
> If I've understood the meaning correctly, you're suggesting that the
> installer should know if the graphical adapter is being used, and if it is,
> automatically run on that console instead of on the serial console.  This is
> not possible, because you can't know that just because a graphical console
> is configured in the VM that this means the user intends to use it.  You
> can't detect whether there is something connected to the other end of that
> console, and you can't detect user intent.

No. What we are requesting here is that, if a graphical adapter is
present, the installer should start on the graphical console. Nowadays
it seems the installer is being enabled only on the last console
specified in the kernel command line.

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  Ubuntu 14.04.3 VM fails to install using Kimchi from PowerKVM 3.1 on
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