Bug 468457

Summary:	RFE: add option to 'virsh start' to immediately connect to the guest text console
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Snook <csnook>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	berrange, brads, crobinso, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Chris Snook 2008-10-24 15:55:57 EDT

Description of problem:
Xen has this nice 'xm create -c' feature that will start a domain and immediately connect to its text console, to help with troubleshooting early boot issues.  It would be very nice if virsh had a similar feature, to bring this convenience to non-xen guests.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.4.6-3.fc10.x86_64

Additional info:

This seems to work fine with local KVM guests:

virsh start vmname && virsh console vmname

but might be racy in configurations where guest setup is performed asynchronously to 'virsh start' returning.

Comment 1 john5342 2008-12-17 22:47:54 EST

This bug has been triaged

Comment 2 Brad Smith 2009-02-11 06:59:30 EST

Are there any plans for this bug to get attention soon? The "virsh start vmname && virsh console vmname" may work in some situations, but at least on my test system with a Xen guest (which is what a lot of GLS's training environments use, at least for now) it does not work. We'd like to make our courseware more forward-compatible by replacing xm commands with the corresponding virsh commands, but so far we have no viable way to access pygrub in a Xen paravirt environment without using xm.

Comment 3 Daniel Berrange 2009-07-27 15:25:33 EDT

Opps, forgot about this. It was addressed in F11 and later

$ virsh help start 
  NAME
    start - start a (previously defined) inactive domain

  SYNOPSIS
    start <domain> [--console]

  DESCRIPTION
    Start a domain.

  OPTIONS
    <domain>         name of the inactive domain
    --console        attach to console after creation


Likewise for the 'create' command