----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christophe TREFOIS" <christophe.tref...@uni.lu> > To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 5:05:28 PM > Subject: [ovirt-users] Problem with Getty and Serial Consoles > > Dear all, > > I am running 3.6.6 and am able to select a Console, however, the screen is > black. > > On the hypervisor, I try to start getty service manually, and end up with > following error in journal > > Jun 13 17:01:01 elephant-server.lcsb.uni.lu systemd[1]: Stopping > user-0.slice. > -- Subject: Unit user-0.slice has begun shutting down > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit user-0.slice has begun shutting down. > Jun 13 17:01:37 elephant-server.lcsb.uni.lu systemd[1]: Job > dev-hvc0.device/start timed out. > Jun 13 17:01:37 elephant-server.lcsb.uni.lu systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for > device dev-hvc0.device. > -- Subject: Unit dev-hvc0.device has failed > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit dev-hvc0.device has failed. > -- > -- The result is timeout. > Jun 13 17:01:37 elephant-server.lcsb.uni.lu systemd[1]: Dependency failed for > Serial Getty on hvc0. > -- Subject: Unit serial-getty@hvc0.service has failed > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit serial-getty@hvc0.service has failed. > > I am running CentOS 7.2. > > Does anybody have some pointers on what could be the issue here?
Hi! Make sure you added the right parameter to the kernel command line, as per """ TL;DR: To make use of a serial console, just use console=ttyS0 on the kernel command line, and systemd will automatically start a getty on it for you. """ nice full tutorial on http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html Bests, -- Francesco Romani RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: 8261328 IRC: fromani _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users