svn commit: r277183 - projects/release-vmimage/release/tools

[Glen Barber]

I should have included that this is temporary.

I'm using qemu over SSH to test the image builds.  I plan on reverting
this before it gets merged to head.

Glen

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 08:27:44AM -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Is this a good idea? Do we know why there is a problem with VMs? If it is
> necessary, shouldn't this be some kind of default in the kernel rather than
> a hack in the release scripts?
> -Nathan
> 
> On 01/14/15 07:23, Glen Barber wrote:
> >Author: gjb
> >Date: Wed Jan 14 15:23:58 2015
> >New Revision: 277183
> >URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277183
> >
> >Log:
> >   Enable the textmode console by default for VM images,
> >   since there is no way to tell if the environment will
> >   be able to use the graphics-mode console.
> >   Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
> >
> >Modified:
> >   projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr
> >
> >Modified: projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr
> >==============================================================================
> >--- projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr	Wed Jan 14 14:50:31 2015	(r277182)
> >+++ projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr	Wed Jan 14 15:23:58 2015	(r277183)
> >@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ vm_install_base() {
> >  			>> ${DESTDIR}/etc/fstab
> >  	fi
> >+	# Set hw.vga.textmode=1, with the assumption that the hypervisor
> >+	# will not be capable of using the graphics console mode.
> >+	echo '# Comment the next line to enable graphical console mode' \
> >+		>> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
> >+	echo 'hw.vga.textmode=1' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
> >+
> >  	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/dev
> >  	mount -t devfs devfs ${DESTDIR}/dev
> >  	chroot ${DESTDIR} /usr/bin/newaliases
> >
> 
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