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{{admon/note | virtio console is added by default on Fedora 20 | If your guest doesn't already have a virtio console attached, you can add it from the virt-manager 'Add Hardware' dialog}}
{{admon/note | virtio console is added by default on Fedora 20 | If your guest doesn't already have a virtio console attached, you can add it from the virt-manager 'Add Hardware' dialog}}
* Open virt-manager. Start with a shutoff VM.
* Open virt-manager. Start with a shutoff VM.
* Verify the guest already has a virtio console configured in the VM details windoe (if not, see the note above)
* Verify the guest already has a virtio console configured in the VM details window (if not, see the note above)
* Open virt-manager. Start the VM. Verify with the graphical console that the VM starts correctly.
* 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
* In the graphical window, select View->Text Consoles->Text Console 1

Revision as of 08:35, 8 October 2013

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 Fedora VM created on F20+

How to test

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virtio console is added by default on Fedora 20
If your guest doesn't already have a virtio console attached, you can add it from the virt-manager 'Add Hardware' dialog
  • Open virt-manager. Start with a shutoff VM.
  • Verify the guest already has a virtio console configured in the VM details window (if not, see the note above)
  • 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.