svn commit: r301732 - head/release/tools

[Colin Percival]

Author: cperciva
Date: Thu Jun  9 13:58:31 2016
New Revision: 301732
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/301732

Log:
  Switch from console="comconsole" to boot_multicons="YES" in EC2.
  
  Amazon recently introduced an API for capturing screenshots of an
  emulated VGA device; this commit makes that (somewhat) useful.
  
  MFC after:	3 weeks

Modified:
  head/release/tools/ec2.conf

Modified: head/release/tools/ec2.conf
==============================================================================
--- head/release/tools/ec2.conf	Thu Jun  9 13:42:18 2016	(r301731)
+++ head/release/tools/ec2.conf	Thu Jun  9 13:58:31 2016	(r301732)
@@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ vm_extra_pre_umount() {
 	echo 'autoboot_delay="-1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
 	echo 'beastie_disable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
 
-	# The EC2 console is an emulated serial port.
-	echo 'console="comconsole"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
+	# EC2 has two consoles: An emulated serial port ("system log"),
+	# which has been present since 2006; and a VGA console ("instance
+	# screenshot") which was introduced in 2016.
+	echo 'boot_multicons="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
 
 	# Some older EC2 hardware used a version of Xen with a bug in its
 	# emulated serial port.  It is not clear if EC2 still has any such