I am using the libvirt plugin. It works. https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt
And I agree. It is not a feature that will be used much, but maybe someone finds the time and need to implement it :-) regard Moozer Den mandag den 3. august 2015 kl. 19.45.18 UTC+2 skrev dragon788: > > Hi Big Mozer, > What you are referring to as "missing" is probably a communicator plugin > utilizing the serial port as the console. It may be feasible to create a > plugin for it, but the demand is probably vanishingly small as most people > can easily use the networking options (NAT/Bridged/etc) to manage the VM > using a virtual network connection. If Libvirt supports it, I think there > is a vagrant plugin to manage libvirt machines, but I wouldn't be surprised > if Virtualbox and VMware don't support it, because they have been primarily > GUI driven tools, and only been slowly that there have been more "power > user" options to manage things via the command line and as headless > machines with only networking. > > > > On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 4:43:03 PM UTC-5, Big Moozer wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. >> >> This plug-in maps a serial port on the guest to a tcp/ip port. >> >> I'm looking for a way not to depend on the actual networking of the guest. >> >> The console is used a lot in network equipment, so you are not dependent >> on ip addresses, firewall rules and such - so that is what I am aiming for. >> E.g. on a linux machine adding some kernel parameter >> console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 >> allows you to access the console directly from the host's command line >> using something like >> $ virsh console <domain> >> >> This is how it works with Libvirt, I suppose Virtualbox has something >> similar. >> >> It just seems so possible with vagrant supporting both "vagrant ssh" and >> "vagrant rdp". There "just" seems to missing a file here: >> https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/tree/master/plugins/communicators >> and a "serial" command here >> https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/tree/master/plugins/commands >> >> Any way, thanks for taking an interest. >> Regards >> Moozer >> >> >> Den lørdag den 18. juli 2015 kl. 16.56.20 UTC+2 skrev Artem Yakimenko: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It's a bit old, so not sure if it's working or not, but maybe that's >>> what you're looking for?: >>> https://github.com/7Pikes/vagrant-serial >>> >>> Cheers, >>> A. >>> >>> On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 7:12:06 PM UTC+2, Big Moozer wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> I want to do "vagrant up" and then access the console of the virtual >>>> machine using a serial connection. >>>> I am thinking something like doing "vagrant serial" instead of "vagran >>>> ssh" or "vagrand rdp". >>>> >>>> I found a discussion about it from 2011. >>>> >>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/vagrant-up/serial/vagrant-up/E3a_fY4n0L0/Xll6XCH18QkJ >>>> >>>> Is there any progress on this? >>>> Is it implemented? >>>> Are there plugins that can help with this? >>>> >>>> Any pointers will be appreciated. >>>> >>>> regards >>>> Moozer >>>> >>> -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/a5c0b570-cb10-4542-a8be-9a70828d5340%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
