QA:Testcase Virt Serial Console

Description

Setup a serial console for the guest, verify tools can connect to it, and the guest OS automatically configures things correctly.

Setup

Functioning virt host, a function F18+ VM.

How to test

• Start with a shutoff VM.
• Edit the guest XML with sudo virsh edit test-day-vm
• Remove the existing console XML block. This requires removing the associated serial device as well:

     <serial type='pty'>
       <target port='0'/>
     </serial>
     <console type='pty'>
       <target type='serial' port='0'/>
     </console>

• Add a virtio console device like:

     <console type='pty'>
       <target type='virtio'/>
     </console>

• Save and exit
• Open virt-manager. Start the VM. Verify with the graphical console that the VM starts correctly.
• In the graphical window, select View->Text Consoles->Text Console 1
• Verify that a login prompt appears on the text console. Verify you can log in correctly. 'exit' to log out.
• On the command line, connect to the console with virsh: sudo virsh console test-day-vm
• Verify you can login as done with virt-manager. Send ctrl+] to exit

Expected Results

No obvious errors occur.