Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 211385
automatic opening of consoles
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:35 EST
Description of problem: virt-manager currently only opens the windows (graphical and text console) for a domain on demand. This is problematic if the domain crashes and one wants to know why. It also is needed if a message during startup has to be observed. Opening the window by hand menas some information gets lost. A feature is needed to select that for all newly started domains (or a subset) the graphical and/or text console are opened automatically. This would allow all the output to be seen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.2.3-2.fc6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: The fact that this feature request comes late should not be held against it. This is a usability issue which only is discovered when the program is in use. It is also needed when the stability of xen isn't too high. Unfortunately this is the case in the moment and we need all the help we can get.
Finally finished the implementation of this feature upstream. As well as setting up to auto-open consoles, needed to have code to auto-retry the VNC connection since we'd often popup the console before the Xen VNC daemon started. Upstream changeset is http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=52d0377abcb8
QE ack for RHEL5.
Fix built for RHEL-5 * Tue Nov 28 2006 Hugh O. Brock <hbrock@redhat.com> - 0.2.5-3.el5 - Add automatic console popups on launching a VM, plus a few console fixes (bz 211385) $ brew latest-pkg dist-5E virt-manager Build Tag Built by ---------------------------------------- -------------------- ---------------- virt-manager-0.2.5-3.el5 dist-5E hbrock
A package has been built which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.