Bug 466891

Summary:	Feature Request: Inclusion of serial port redirection to a file in rhel
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Gurhan Ozen <gozen>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.3	CC:	berrange, crobinso, jburke, nzhang, sghosh, xen-maint
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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OS:	Linux
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Description Gurhan Ozen 2008-10-14 11:43:30 UTC

Description of problem:
This is a feature request spun off of #465148 . It'd be helpful for our automated testing efforts if we could have serial port redirection to a file feature included in RHEL. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2009-02-16 00:05:51 UTC

Pretty certain this is present in upstream libvirt, so we get this for free if we rebase.

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2009-03-30 11:03:46 UTC

This is available in 0.6.1 rebase.

Usage for logging to a file is described here

http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsCharFle

Comment 6 Nan Zhang 2009-06-04 10:29:39 UTC

Add the following section to guest domain xml.

      <serial type="file">
        <source path="/var/log/serial.log"/>
        <target port="1"/>
      </serial>

Edit guest menu.lst, append the following to kernel line to support serial port output, and reboot guest domain.

      console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0

On host, cat /var/log/serial.log, boot messages was displayed.


This bug has been verified with libvirt 0.6.3-3 on rhel-5.4. Fixed.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:21:59 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1269.html