[Openstack] Ability to view Ubuntu boot process in VNC console

Andrii Loshkovskyi loshkovskyi at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 10:36:03 UTC 2013


Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

Actually, I already tried updating Grub with those parameters. No effect.

It looks to be a libvirt issue. I'm studying our libvirt configs and
templates now. It was found that libvirt uses a template with the following
line:

<cmdline>console=ttyS0</cmdline>

I suppose that I need to change it to tty1 as the last is shown on my VNC
console. I'll keep investigation.



On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso <
juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrii:
>
> In this post we talk about it.
> http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/tqza3vv4ap4out2q
>
> Regards!
> --
> JuanFra
>
>
> 2013/2/14 Andrii Loshkovskyi <loshkovskyi at gmail.com>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried setting the value with/without brackets and encountered the
>> following error:
>>
>> Invalid output terminal "ttyS0"
>>
>> As far as I know I can check the kernel boot parameters this way:
>>
>> cat /proc/cmdline
>> root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0 selinux=0
>>
>> The line above is same all of the time, even if I applied some new
>> changes to the GRUB config.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Joe Breu <joseph.breu at rackspace.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello Andrii,
>>>
>>>  Can you try setting GRUB_TERMINAL to ttyS0, update the grub config,
>>> and boot the image?
>>>
>>>   ---
>>> Joseph Breu
>>> Deployment Engineer
>>> Rackspace Private Cloud
>>> 210-312-3508
>>>
>>>  On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Andrii Loshkovskyi wrote:
>>>
>>>  Currently, when I boot up an Ubuntu virtual machine, the boot process
>>> messages are not shown up in the VNC console. Everything that I see in the
>>> console is "iPXE Booting from ROM...", black screen and login entry at the
>>> end. I am using OpenStack Essex and my VM's image was built from Ubuntu
>>> Server 12.04 LTS. I tried editing the GRUB config file /etc/default/grub
>>> and updating configuraton with update-grub afterwards. Particularly, I made
>>> sure there is no "quiet" option in the Linux command line parameters,
>>> GRUB_TERMINAL=console is uncommented, etc.
>>>
>>>  The problem is it looks like Nova does not use this GRUB config at
>>> all. Any changes applied to the GRUB config are not visible on the boot
>>> process. I studied documentation and googled a lot trying to understand how
>>> the VMs boot process works in OpenStack but with no success.
>>>
>>>  I need your help on this issue. I would appreciate if someone shares
>>> an advice how to view the boot messages while booting up a VM or point me
>>> to the proper documentation. Let me know if you need more details on my
>>> configuration as it looks to be a rather general issue.
>>>
>>>  Thank you for your help.
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>>
>>
>> --
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>> Andrii Loshkovskyi
>>
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Kind regards,
Andrii Loshkovskyi
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