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

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Ah, OK. Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
-Nathan

On 01/14/15 08:40, Glen Barber wrote:
> 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
>>>