Bug 1276928

Summary:	[RFE] Add an option to enable sga device for x86 BIOS serial interaction.
Product:	[oVirt] ovirt-engine	Reporter:	Nikolai Sednev <nsednev>
Component:	BLL.Virt	Assignee:	Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Nikolai Sednev <nsednev>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	---	CC:	bugs, mavital, mtessun
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---	Flags:	michal.skrivanek: ovirt-future? rule-engine: planning_ack? rule-engine: devel_ack? rule-engine: testing_ack?
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2018-07-06 14:42:21 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Nikolai Sednev 2015-11-01 12:57:00 UTC

Description of problem:
Add an option to enable sga device for x86 BIOS serial interaction.
Currently it's not possible to get guest's graphical BIOS emulation over serial-console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ovirt-vmconsole-1.0.0-0.0.6.master.el7ev.noarch
ovirt-vmconsole-host-1.0.0-0.0.6.master.el7ev.noarch
Linux version 3.10.0-324.el7.x86_64 (mockbuild.eng.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Oct 13 21:28:31 EDT 2015

On engine:
ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-1.0.0-1.el6ev.noarch
rhevm-vmconsole-proxy-helper-3.6.0.2-0.1.el6.noarch
rhevm-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper-3.6.0.2-0.1.el6.noarch
ovirt-vmconsole-1.0.0-1.el6ev.noarch
Linux version 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild.eng.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Sep 10 13:42:16 EDT 2015

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enable the boot menu in guest-VM boot.
2.Connect to the guest-VM over serial-console and start the VM.
3.

Actual results:
BIOS prompts not visible via serial-console during guest-VM's boot.

Expected results:
BIOS prompts should be visible like they shown via Spice or VNC.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine 2015-11-01 13:00:13 UTC

Target release should be placed once a package build is known to fix a issue. Since this bug is not modified, the target version has been reset. Please use target milestone to plan a fix for a oVirt release.

Comment 2 Martin Tessun 2018-07-06 14:42:21 UTC

Works in RHV 4.2:

 eaBIOS (version 1.11.0-2.el7)
 achine UUID 923e4013-de22-4f25-b92f-188d0a99b2b6
M

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 CA80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+BFF9B670+BFEFB670 CA80
                                                                               



Press ESC for boot menu.

Select boot device:

1. Virtio disk PCI:00:08.0
2. iPXE (PCI 00:03.0)
3. Legacy option rom
4. DVD/CD [ata1-0: QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 DVD/CD]