Serial console issue

[martijnk]

Hi,

Deploying VMs with Cloud-Init. When I access the serial console I can see the VM boot. I can logon etc. No issue at all.
But when I disconnect the serial console and then reconnect to it nothing happens. I only see 'starting serial terminal on interface serial0' Pressing enter etc, nothing works.

Now I was reading that cloud-init supports serial console only right? So I can't use VGA. I've tried but then the VM doesn't even boot and hangs after creation.

Any idea how to fix this?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Deploying VMs with Cloud-Init. When I access the serial console I can see the VM boot. I can logon etc. No issue at all.
But when I disconnect the serial console and then reconnect to it nothing happens. I only see 'starting serial terminal on interface serial0' Pressing enter etc, nothing works.

this sounds like there is no getty on the serial terminal inside the VM?
check the boot-loader config of the VM - see e.g.:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/working_with_the_serial_console#getty

I hope this helps!

 

[martijnk]

this sounds like there is no getty on the serial terminal inside the VM?
check the boot-loader config of the VM - see e.g.:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/working_with_the_serial_console#getty

I hope this helps!

Well it turns out that it just works, only I had the console open on the hypervisor.

Apparently only one console connection is possible, which makes sense lol. Dumb mistake from my side. Thanks anyway for the help!

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Glad you found the issue - please mark the thread as 'SOLVED' - It might help others who also run into this problem

Thanks!