bhyve console question

[Dan Mack]

Ahh, cool.   I wasn't paying attention I guess:

  uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 at device 31.0 on pci0
  uart2: console (9600,n,8,1)

which maps to the bhyve argument given:  '-S 31,uart,stdio'

and subsequently the serial console getty on ttyu2.  Nice.   Thank you,

It would be kind of cool to bind a guest's serial port to a named pipe on 
the host system (I think virtual box lets you do this too - an option when 
creating a guest serial port).

This would make it easy to have each bhyve guest with serial console 
attached to a list of device files upon which we could attach a screen 
session to later if we wanted to login or look at the console.

For now, I'll just spin up each vm guest within a separate screen window.

Take care,

Dan


On Sun, 28 Apr 2013, Peter Grehan wrote:

> HI Dan,
>
>> Yes, the current bhyve-manual has that as a step in the configuration
>> (http://bhyve.org/bhyve-manual.txt) which I guess is the culprit. I
>> guess I just didn't expect that side effect but admit to not spending
>> much time thinking about it first :-)
>
> I think it was done that way since /dev/console will always work, whereas 
> the tty line to use changed at one point when we cut over from the ISA uart 
> device to the PCI uart device resulting in a different tty device being used. 
> However, it looks like we may switch back to using a PCI-ISA bridge device 
> and that will change things again :(
>
> For now, you can edit the stock /etc/ttys as follows:
>
> -ttyu2  "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
> +ttyu2   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  secure
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>